Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

I will attack no matter what and win the war!

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.