My arm is paralyzed; my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone; I can scarcely speak above a whisper; my hearing is very much imp….

The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human free….

This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it..

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die hap….

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it..

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee..

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be….

I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more….

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!.

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all be….

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!.

The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand in mine was, Pete,….

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present….

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal..

If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough..