Quote List

[Horcerer]

A collection of all the quotes I can find in the loading screens. Will update regularly.

"Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobby Lee, I will be willing to go home." - Maj. Gen. George McClellan

"We were shooting them like sheep in a pen. If a bullet missed the mark at first it was liable to strike the furthur bank, angle back, and strike them secondarily." - Sgt. Charles Fuller, 61st NY, Antietam.

"I prefer Lee to Johnston" - Maj. Gen. George McClellan.

"The dead and dying lay as thick as harvest sheaves." - Confederate soldier, Antietam.

"The carrying out of your plan will be murder, not warfare." - Ltc. Joseph H. Taylor, US, Fredericksburg.

"A sheet of flame, sudden as lightning, red as blood, and so near that it seemed to singe the men's faces" - Union Private, Cold Harbour.

"Tell the general I can hold my ground." - James E.B. Stuart, Gettysburg.

[Aurion]

Some of the ones from my last play.

"God bless you and all with you. Destroy the rebel army if possible." - Telegram from Abraham Lincoln before Antietam.

"The three brigades were so near that a rifle bullet would often cross them all and disable five or six men at a time" - BG Oliver O. Howard, US, Antietam.

"Goodbye, general. We'll meet at the hatter's, as one ♥♥♥♥ said to another when the dogs were after them." - BG Thomas Wood, US, Stone's River

"The losses were so tremendous that before we knew it, our momentum was gone, and the charge a failure. - BG Winfield Scott Hancock, US, Fredericksburg

"General, we cover that ground now so well that we will comb it as with a fine-tooth comb. A chicken could not live on that field when we open on it." - Edward Porter Alexander, CS, Fredericksburg.

"I would fight them if they were a million. I intend to hammer 'em!" - LTG Albert Sidney Johnston, CS, Shiloh.

"The men were calmly writing their names and home addresses on slips of paper and pinning them on the backs of their coats." - Staff officer Horace Porter, US, Cold Harbor.

"When he went to sleep he was the most difficult man to arouse I ever saw." - Dr. Hunter Maguire, "Stonewall" Jackson's medical officer.