James Longstreet Quotes About Civil War

• The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand in mine was, Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant. Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

  James Longstreet

  Brother, War, Heart

• I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.

  James Longstreet

  War, Men, Soldier

• Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

  James Longstreet

  War, Errors, Truth Is

• General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

  James Longstreet

  War, Soldier, Unions

• Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

  James Longstreet

  Brother, War, Fighting

  The New York Times, July 24, 1885.

• I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

  James Longstreet

  War, Want, Succeed

• I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

  James Longstreet

  Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Long

• If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

  James Longstreet

  War, Men, Enough

• This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

  James Longstreet

  War, Fighting, Dies

• General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

  James Longstreet

  War, Fighting, Honorable

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