Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.