Charles P. Mattocks Quotes

Charles Porter Mattocks was a colonel in the Union Army who received the Medal of Honor. He was born in Danville, Vermont and served in the 17th Maine Infantry during the American Civil War. He was captured and interned as a prisoner of war for nine months. Later, he commanded the Maine State Militia and served as a Brigadier General during the Spanish–American War. He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1880, was a county attorney for Cumberland County, Maine, and argued a case before the Supreme Court. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. October 1840 – 16. May 1910
Charles P. Mattocks photo
Charles P. Mattocks: 3   quotes 0   likes

Famous Charles P. Mattocks Quotes

“[Command] is one of the easiest things in the world if a man only is lavish of the immense power which is by the military code granted to a Regimental commander.”

Letter to his mother, in [Lorien Foote, The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy, https://books.google.com/books?id=d4kwDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA14, 5 October 2016, University of North Carolina Press, 978-1-4696-3056-4, 14–]

“When the two Regts. were panic-stricken they [his command] stood by me like heroes … Would I abandon men who showed themselves willing to give their own lives to save mine?”

Speaking of the 17th Main Volunteer Infantry Regiment in a letter to his mother, in [Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Northern Character: College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era, https://books.google.com/books?id=cFMnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA160, 2016, Oxford University Press, 978-0-8232-7181-8, 160–]

Similar authors

Ambrose Bierce photo
Ambrose Bierce 204
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu…
Carl von Clausewitz photo
Carl von Clausewitz 68
German-Prussian soldier and military theorist
François-René de Chateaubriand photo
François-René de Chateaubriand 28
French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
Theodore Roosevelt photo
Theodore Roosevelt 445
American politician, 26th president of the United States
Theodor Mommsen photo
Theodor Mommsen 65
German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, po…
Abraham Lincoln photo
Abraham Lincoln 618
16th President of the United States
Pierre Joseph Proudhon photo
Pierre Joseph Proudhon 40
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and so…
Benjamin Disraeli photo
Benjamin Disraeli 306
British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri…
Josh Billings photo
Josh Billings 91
American humorist
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow photo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 202
American poet