Ben Robertson Quotes

Like most Southerners, I visit battlefields. Southerners will visit almost any battlefield anywhere, but we are especially fond of the Civil War scenes because we know who fought where and how they did their fighting.

Ben Robertson

• Fighting
• Civil War
• Battlefields

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• Like most Southerners, I visit battlefields. Southerners will visit almost any battlefield anywhere, but we are especially fond of the Civil War scenes because we know who fought where and how they did their fighting.

  

  Ben Robertson
  • Fighting
  • Civil War
  • Battlefields