Quote#World
In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of ——…
Quote byAugustus Baldwin Longstreet · 1790–1870
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Georgia Scenes (1840), "The Fight", p. 53.
English (original)
In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men in the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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