Quotes About Vicksburg

#1. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

Richard Armour

#2. The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.

Johnny Carson

#3. Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together.

Jefferson Davis

#4. It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end ... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

Henry Adams

#5. The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

Ulysses S. Grant

#6. I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

Collis Potter Huntington

#7. Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Knute Nelson

#8. We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Roy Barnes

#9. The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

Paula Poundstone

#10. As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

Kate Bernheimer

#11. Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana