Confederate Soldiers Home

Famous quotes containing the words confederate, soldiers and/or home:

    “Well, you Yankees and your holy principle about savin’ the Union. You’re plunderin’ pirates that’s what. Well, you think there’s no Confederate army where you’re goin’. You think our boys are asleep down here. Well, they’ll catch up to you and they’ll cut you to pieces you, you nameless, fatherless scum. I wish I could be there to see it.”
    —John Lee Mahin (1902–1984)

    “Better to die, or not to have been born,
    than hear that plaining, piteous convict wail
    about these beautiful dark eyebrowed women.
    It’s soldiers who sing these days. O Lord God.”
    —Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)

    “I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people’s thoughts and work, things they love.”
    —Dewitt Bodeen (1908–1988)