John C. Waugh > Quotes

“Hill gave her a ring in which were etched the words “Je t’aime.” As Sylvanus Thayer, the father of West Point, had said so long ago, all the important things are written in French.”
― John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Br others

“Why is Old Jack a better general than Moses?” was the question they liked to ask. “Because it took Moses forty years to lead the Israelites through the wilderness,” the answer went, “and Old Jack would have double-quicked them through in three days.”10”
― John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Br others

“Let us cross over the river,” he said quietly, “and rest under the shade of the trees.”
― John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Br others

“Many rebel soldiers that night would sleep on their muskets and question the value of a victory that had cost them Stonewall Jackson.”
― John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Br others

“It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.”
― John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Br others

“In no age or country, perhaps, since the dawn of civilization was humbuggery exhibited in more gigantic and grotesque forms. . . . Reason was everywhere reeling in the storm, and madness ruled the masses.”22”
― John C. Waugh, One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War