War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first that the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.

He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.