He is up yonder now, and we shall meet again.

In these memoirs I only tell what I saw myself, and in this way the world will know the truth.

Now, citizen, let me tell you what you never heard before, and this is this--there were many men with the rank and pay of general, who were not generals; there were many men with the rank and pay of privates who would have honored and adorned the name of general.

Now, I will state further that a private soldier was a private.
It mattered not how ignorant a corporal might be, he was always right; it mattered not how intelligent the private might be (and so on up); the sergeant was right over the corporal, the sergeant-major over the sergeant, the lieutenant over him, and the captain over him, and the major over him, and the colonel over him, and the general over him, and so on up to Jeff Davis.

You see, a private had no right to know anything, and that is why generals did all the fighting, and that is today why generals and colonels and captains are great men.