Montgomery Court House

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“We went on, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the soldier, binding up his wounds, harboring the stranger, visiting the sick, ministering to the prisoner, and burying the dead, until that blessed day at Appomattox Court House relieved the strain.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

“Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
A day’s march nearer home.”
—James Montgomery (1771–1854)

“A friend i’the court is better than a penny in purse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It will be difficult for me not to make sport for the Philistines by pulling down a house or two, since when I once take pen in hand, I must say what comes uppermost, or fling it away.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)