Confederate Soldiers Home

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

    “During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle- field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)

    “My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.”
    —Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)