10 Quotes by Daniel Harvey Hill

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of artillery or an earthwork lined with infantry.

It was not war, it was murder.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was a grand and glorious spectacle, and it was impossible to look at it without admiration.

Train our children to love God.

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.