“Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!” Stonewall Jackson

Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
Last words (May 10, 1863); as quoted in “Stonewall Jackson’s Last Days” by Joe D. Haines, Jr. in America’s Civil War
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The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon; and when it does come my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.
Speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute (March 1861); as quoted in The War (1910) by James H. Wood
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I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
To Col. Sam Fulkerson, who reported on the weariness of their troops and suggested that they should be given an hour or so to rest from a forced march in the night. (24 May 1862); as quoted in Mighty Stonewall (1957) by Frank E. Vandiver, p. 250
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