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| Where this division defended, no odds broke it's lines; where it attacked, no numbers resisted it's onslaught, save only once; and their is the grave of Cleburne and his heroic division -Gen. Hardee- |
| This is the same Cleburne mentioned on the previous page |
| Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. -Robert E. Lee- |
| "...the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Act of the State of Virginia adopting the Federal Constitution - passed June 26th, 1788 |
| "A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me." Robert E. Lee - 1861 |
| "Fate has indeed taken a malignant pleasure in flouting the admirers of the United States. It is not merely that their hopes of its universal empire have been disappointed...the mortification has been much deeper than this. Every theory to which they paid a special homage... has been successully repudiated by their favorite statesmen. They were the Apostles of Free Trade. America has established a tariff, compared to which our heaviest protection-tariff has been flimsy... she has become a land of passports, of conscriptions, of press censorship and post-office espionage, of bastilles and lettres of de cachet...there was little difference between the Government of Mr. Lincoln and the Government of Napoleon. There was the form of a legislative assembly, where scarcely any dared to oppose for fear of a charge of treason." The Quarterly Review - 1862 England |
| "I cherish the hope that when a good Confederate like I was dies, he will go back to the Old South, and live his long lost life over and over. I will never tire of any detail. And when Hood's division marches, camps, or fights, I will be in my place in that body of incomparable soldiers." Capt. John Reed of the 8th GA Infantry as he lay dying. |
| The (Union) dead covered more than five acres of ground about as thickly as they could be laid. Confederate soldier at Cold Harbor |
| "All that the South has ever desired is that the Union of fore fathers should be preserved." Robert E. Lee |
| "Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again." Jefferson Davis |
| "Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history, and denies them their symbols, has sewn the seed of its own destruction." William Wallace, 1281 |