From Gods and Generals:
Jackson: Captain White.How fare the scholars of Washington College? Are they making their transition from books to bullets?
White: A few more days of drill, and my boys will surpass the cadets of VMI.
Jackson: Drill, Professor White, drill and drill. Remember Alexander in Anatolia. Caesar in Gaul. Napoleon in lberia.
White: We march by day, and read Xenophon by night. We will be your Greek phalanx.
Jackson: Then you must begin with the bayonet. The bayonet must be for a Virginian
what the sarissa was for a Macedonian. If the Yankees dare set foot in Virginia, we must show them the bayonet. Train with the bayonet, and we shall keep our freedom.
From Gods and Generals: Jackson: Captain White.How fare the scholars of Washington College? Are they making their transition from books to bullets? White: A few more days of drill, and my boys will surpass the cadets of VMI. Jackson: Drill, Professor White, drill and drill. Remember Alexander in Anatolia. Caesar in Gaul. Napoleon in lberia. White: We march by day, and read Xenophon by night. We will be your Greek phalanx. Jackson: Then you must begin with the bayonet. The bayonet must be for a Virginian what the sarissa was for a Macedonian. If the Yankees dare set foot in Virginia, we must show them the bayonet. Train with the bayonet, and we shall keep our freedom.