Quote Of The Day

Quote Of The Day, June 19, 2024

By MacAoidh

June 19, 2024

“I will tell you. The men who took us into Mexico City are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond.”

– General Winfield Scott, asked by then-President Abraham Lincoln why 5,000 American soldiers under the general’s command were able to take Mexico City but the U.S. Army was having so much trouble subduing Richmond with 100,000 men.