John Brown Gordon Quotes

United States, Attorney At Law
February 6, 1832 – January, 9, 1904.

John Brown Gordon (February 6, 1832 – January 9, 1904) was an attorney, a planter, general in the Confederate States Army, and politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become "one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals".

Also known as Military General

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

John Brown Gordon
- War
- Aesthetic
- Mars
I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

John Brown Gordon

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

John Brown Gordon
- Men
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

John Brown Gordon
- People
- World
- History
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

John Brown Gordon
As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.

John Brown Gordon
- War
- Enough
- Army