Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Quotes

• He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Horse, Loss, Fire

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24

  8 Copy quote

• Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fighting, Gestures, Littles

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

  22 Copy quote

• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fear, Moving, Home

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

  10 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin