Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.