“Colonel, I shall expect you and your men to hold this ground at all hazards.”— Winfield Scott Hancock
“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle can take that position.”— James Longstreet