Robert Emhardt: General Winfield Scott

Quotes 

• Abraham Lincoln : What're you rushing off for?

  Ellmer Ellsworth : Well, if I don't hurry, sir, the war will be over before I have a chance to get into it.

  General Scott : The optimism of youth.

  Ellmer Ellsworth : They can't last more than a few weeks, General. We outnumber them four to one. There's not a cannon factory in the whole South. And look what they're doing: Moving their capital from Alabama to Richmond! Now that's like a chess player sticking his king right in the center of the board. Why, we'll be matching through the streets of Richmond by the Fourth of July!