Nathan Bedford Forrest

Get there first with the most men.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Every moment lost is worth the life of a thousand men.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

There is no doubt we could soon wipe old Sherman off the face of the earth, John, if they'd give me enough men and you enough guns.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

I've got no respect for a young man who won't join the colors.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

I'll officer you.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

That we are beaten is a self-evident fact, and any further resistance on our part would be justly regarded as the very height of folly and rashness.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Preserve untarnished the reputation you have so nobly won.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest