[LadyJD]

LINCOLN:

“General Scott how is it that 10,000 men took Mexico City in six weeks
and 100,000 have not taken Richmond in six months?”

GENERAL SCOTT:

"Mr. President, the very men who took me into the City of Mexico
are keeping me out of the city of Richmond."

[LadyJD]

"Although the Confederacy as an organization may have ceased to exist, the fundamental principles, the eternal truths, uttered when our colonies in 1776 declared their independence, on which the Confederation of 1781 and the Union of 1788 were formed, and which animated and guided the Confederacy of 1861, yet live, and in God’s appointed time and place, will prevail." –Jefferson Davis