"Gone With the Wind" Quotable Quotes

The movie "Gone With the Wind" was released in December 1939, and was at the theaters for months after that.  So, we are in the 80th anniversary of it.

From Wikipedia.

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE

100 Years Series

Top 100 Movies:   #4

Top 100 Passions:  #2

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SEE IF YOU REMEMBER THESE "GONE WITH THE WIND" QUOTATIONS:

From the AFI's 100 Years...100 Quotes

What do you think is the #1 quote?

These two were nominated, but didn't make the list:

"I don't know nothin'  'bout birthin' babies!"

"Fiddle-Dee-Dee."

#59.  "As God as my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

#31.  "After all, tomorrow's another day."

#1.  "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

But You Knew That.  --Old SeceGone

"Lorena" Songwriter-- Part 5: Gen. Morgan Wants Joseph Dead

Even though his military career didn't bring him to the front lines, Joseph Webster's best weapon in the war was his songwriting.  He established a singing school in Elkhorn and it was there that he met Henry DeLafayette Webster, who was a teacher and principal of the Elkhorn schools.  This other Webster, a minister collaborated with Joseph as lyricist for several songs, notably "Lorena," Webster's first hit.

I was not able to find anything about Henry Webster being in Elkhorn.  Also, Find A Grave does not have his final resting place.

The mournful and sorrowful song was sung by the soldiers of both North and South who would sit around their campgrounds at night and sing it.  It is also sometimes blamed for causing desertions because of homesickness.  Confederate General John Hunt Morgan was reported as saying, "I will pay a bounty to the man who kills the scoundrel who wrote that song."

--Old Secesh

Text From Civil War Stamps-- Part 4

"LORENA" LYRICS BY HENRY WEBSTER--  A popular song on both sides-- 
"But then, 'tis past, the years are gone,
I'll not call up their shadowy forms;
I'll say to them, 'Lost years, sleep on!
Sleep on! nor heed life's pelting storms."

RUFUS R. DAWES, 6TH WISCONSIN INFANTRY, Describing Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--  "For a mile up and down the fields before us in splendid lines...of the Army of Northern Virginia swept down upon us.  They came half way up this slope, wavered, began to fire, then to scatter and then to run, and how our men did yell, 'Come on, Johnny, come on.'"


WILLIAM TUNNARD, 3RD LOUISIANA INFANTRY, Describing the Siege of Vicksburg--  "Dogs howled through the streets at night, cats screamed forth their hideous cries, and an army of rats, seeking food, would scamper around your feet."

Well worth getting yourself a commemorative sheet.

Old Secesh

Text From Civil War Stamps Sheet-- Part 3

There is a photo of three Confederate soldiers captured at The Battle of Gettysburg.  I found a very interesting story about this photo.  Now we know what their names are.

There were also five quotes which I will list:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:  "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow--this ground.  The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or detract."

CLARA BARTON--  Nurse--  "...what armies and how much war I have seen...what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ahes, what hunger and nakedness, what orpanage, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance."

Frankly, My Dear....  --Old Secesh

Today Marks the 200th Anniversary of Stephen Douglas' Birthday-- Part 2

Well, yesterday actually, but I appreciate the Springfield (Il) Journal Register running this in their editorial page as I would surely have missed it.  He did not live long once the war started, but otherwise I'm sure would have had an impact on it.

I did not know that he was the author of the Homestead Act bill which guaranteed 160 acres to any settler who agreed to farm the land.  This caused many people to move west, many of whom were former soldiers during the Civil War.

"Not only was Douglas not bitter about losing the presidency to Lincoln, he in fact toured the country stumping for the Union cause at the outbreak of the Civil War.  It was during this tour that he contracted typhoid fever and died on June 3, 1861."

Definitely a Man Whose Life Needs to Be Commemorated.  --Old Secesh


The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum provides Abraham Lincoln quotes to the Journal-Register everyday.

From July 22, 1860:  "I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."  Words he stuck with during the war.

Who Said It?

This Date 1862-- President Lincoln established the US Department of Agriculture.


WHO SAID IT. I have the Civil War Daily Calendar. On April 9, 19/20 and 29th they had quotes. See if you can tell who said what.

QUOTE #1. April 9th-- "After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the ____ __ _______ ______ has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources."


QUOTE #2. April 19/20-- "I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children."


QUOTE #3. April 29-- "WE feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence,...all we ask is to be let alone...."

Answers Below.








1. Robert E. Lee at the surrender

2. Robert E. Lee upon resigning his commission

3. Jefferson Davis, April 29, 1861