Famous quotes containing the words ten and/or generals:
“Spite of all the Indian-summer sunlight on the hither side of Hawthornes soul, the other sidelike the dark half of the physical sphereis shrouded in a blackness, ten times black.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched.Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slaveryin fact, its only enemy.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)