Lee's Army Will Be Your Objective Point.

If Men Make War In Slavish Observance Of Rules, They Will Fail. No Rules Will Apply To Conditions Of War As Different As Those Which Exist In Europe And America...war Is Progressive, Because All The Instruments And Elements Of War Are Progressive.

It Is Men Who Wait To Be Selected, And Not Those Who Seek, From Whom We May Expect The Most Efficient Service.

Wars Produce Many Stories Of Fiction, Some Of Which Are Told Until They Are Believed To Be True.

Oh, I Am Heartily Tired Of Hearing About What Lee Is Going To Do. Some Of You Always Seem To Think He Is Suddenly Going To Turn A Double Somersault, And Land In Our Rear And On Both Of Our Flanks At The Same Time. Go Back To Your Command, And Try To Think What Are We Going To Do Ourselves, Instead Of What Lee Is Going To Do.

No Theory Of My Own Will Ever Stand In The Way Of My Executing, In Good Faith, Any Order I May Receive From Those In Authority Over Me.