Young Confederate Soldier

Famous quotes containing the words young, confederate and/or soldier:

“They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,
That all of thee we loved and cherished
Has with thy summer roses perished;
And left, as its young beauty fled,
An ashen memory in its stead.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

“Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

“A soldier is better accommodated than with a wife.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)