The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

All we ask is to be let alone.