James Longstreet Quotes
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896, p. 630.
Responding to reporter’s question about colatteral enviornmental damage from the result of bombing and fires.
This quotation illustrates degree of hatred that the French had for the English for the hundreds of years of their European superpower rivalry.
This was written under the name of Ragnar Redbeard. There are a few scholars who believe that it was written by Jack London, but most credit Desmond.
James Longstreet was an American soldier and diplomat. He was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse". He served under Lee as a corps commander for most of the battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, and briefly with Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater.
