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.

- James Longstreet

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…

- James Longstreet

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

- James Longstreet

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…

- James Longstreet

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…

- James Longstreet

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…

- James Longstreet

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…

- James Longstreet

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…

- James Longstreet

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.

- James Longstreet