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| "I do believe my favorite actor in Washington, D.C. is John Wilkes Booth." ---Abraham Lincoln to Secretary Seward, March, 1865 ...As Floweree's band, playing "Dixie," was passing a vine-bowered home, a young girl rushed out on the porch and waved a United States flag. Then, either fearing that it might be taken from her or finding it too large and unwieldy, she fastened it around her as an apron, and taking hold of it on each side and waving it in defiance, called out with all the strength of her girlish voice and all the courage of her brave young heart: "Traitors—traitors—traitors, come and take this flag, the man of you who dares!" Knowing that many of my men were from a section of the country which had been within the enemy's lines, and fearing lest some might forget their manhood, I took off my hat and bowed to her, saluted her flag and then turned, facing the men who felt and saw my unspoken order. And don't you know that they were all Virginians and didn't forget it, and that almost every man lifted his cap and cheered the little maiden who, though she kept on waving her flag, ceased calling us traitors, till letting it drop in front of her she cried out: "Oh, I wish I wish I had a rebel flag; I'd wave that, too." The picture of that little girl in the vine-covered porch, beneath the purple morning glories with their closed lips and bowed heads waiting and saving their prettiness and bloom for the coming morn—of course, I thought of you, my darling. ---General George Pickett, in a letter home to his wife just before Gettysburg "I gotta bbuuurrrrnnnnnnn my boots; they touched Yankee soil!" ---Yosemite Sam During the recent fight on the Rappahannock, [General Jubal A. Early] saw a man rushing past him. "Where are you going?" cried the General. "To the rear," replied the man. "I am a non-combatant." "Who are you?" demanded the General. "I am a chaplain," replied the runner. "Well," said the General, "here is consistency! For twenty years you have been wanting to get to heaven, and now that there is a chance, you run away from it." "Under it we won our victories and its glory will never fade. It is enshrined in our hearts forever" ---1st. Lady, Varina Howell Davis on the Battle Flag |
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