John Brown Gordon

“General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?”

“I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.”

“No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.”