Black Jack Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words black, jack and/or brigade:

“I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“This is the cat
That killed the rat”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 7–8)

“[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)