It Is Good That War Is So

No Blame Can Be Attached To The Army For Its Failure To Accomplish What Was Projected By Me... I Alone Am To Blame, In Perhaps Expecting Too Much Of Its Prowess And Valor... Could I Have Foreseen That The Attack On The Last Day Would Fail, I Should Certainly Have Tried Some Other Course... But I Do Not Know What Better Course I Could Have Pursued.

I Tremble For My Country When I Hear Of Confidence Expressed In Me. I Know Too Well My Weakness, That Our Only Hope Is In God.

Any Victory Would Be Dear At Such A Price.

To Be A Good Soldier, You Must Love The Army. To Be A Good Commander, You Must Be Willing To Order The Death Of The Thing You Love.

Everyone Should Do All In His Power To Collect And Disseminate The Truth, In The Hope That It May Find A Place In History And Descend To Posterity. History Is Not The Relation Of Campaigns And Battles And Generals Or Other Individuals, But That Which Shows The Principles For Which The South Contended And Which Justified Her Struggle For Those Principles.