Three Months in the Southern States Quotes

“They seemed very ignorant, and confused Texans with Mexicans.”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“(Friday).—”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“Now, I am as fond of money as any Jew, yet I wouldn't sleep in that house for one night if you gave it to me for doing so.”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“These men were exempted from the conscription, either on account of their age, nationality, or other cause—or had purchased substitutes.”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“East Tennessee is said to contain many people who are more favourable to the North than to the South, and its inhabitants are now being conscripted by the Confederates; but they sometimes object to this operation, and, taking to the hills and woods, commence bushwhacking there.”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“patriot,”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“And I am also of opinion that many will agree with me in thinking that a people in which all ranks and both sexes display a unanimity and a heroism which can never have been surpassed in the history of the world, is destined, sooner or later, to become a great and independent nation.”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“patriotism”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

“that a well-cooked polecat is as good to eat as a pig, and that stewed rattlesnake is not so”
― Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863