“The decision to engage the enemy was taken after the fullest possible consideration of all available information. Logistical eventualities were of paramount importance; the topography, supplies, armaments, lines of communication, climate, morale and the possibility of reinforcements all needed to be weighed and evaluated. Only then, after the most careful discussion and planning, did we take the hazardous decision to fight.”

From “Memoirs Of The Washita” by

Brevet Major-General George Kemp, Published

by Temple Press, Parkfield, Illinois, 1884.

“It is a good day to die.”

Attributed, inter alia, to the Comanche war chief, Many Lances, circa 1884.