Civil War quote for the day

Abraham Lincoln once asked General Winfield Scott "Why is it that you were once able to take the City of Mexico in three months with 5,000 men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with 100,000 men?"
"I will tell you," said General Scott. "The men who took us into the City of Mexico are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond."

From Confederate Veteran, September 1913, page 471

Courtesy of John Robinson