Civil War Officer

Famous quotes containing the words civil, war and/or officer:

    “They have been waiting for us in a foetor
    Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
    Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
    Of the expropriated mycologist.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

    “The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)