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"A citizen-soldier in an army of professionals, a leading spokesman for the South, an active participant in the industrial, commercially oriented New South, and a major promoter of national reconciliation--John Brown Gordon should properly be numbered among the most important figures in Southern and American history during the last half of the nineteenth century."

Quoted from the Introduction of "John Brown Gordon, Soldier, Southerner, American" by Ralph Lowell Eckert (Louisiana State University press, 1989)

[The Iguana]

"General, where are your dead men?"

"I haven't got any, sir! The Almighty has covered my men with his shield and buckler!"

-- Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon, Gettysburg, July 1, 1863