“Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.”

—  Nathan Bedford Forrest

Forrest to Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi and Isham G. Harris, former Governor of Tennessee, in response to the request that he keep fighting. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s

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