You do the Anabasis business when you want to get out of the
enemy's country, and the Thermopylae business when they want to get into your
country. But we retreated in our own country and we gave up our mountain passes
without a blow. But never mind the Greeks; if we had only our own Game Cock,
Sumter, our own Swamp Fox, Marion. Marion's men or Sumter's, or the equivalent
of them, now lie under the sod, in Virginia or Tennessee.
SOURCES: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 341
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