Public domain. It was probably said a thousand times. Here is a much more interesting quote, courtesy of Shelby Foote. In the aftermath of a skirmish between one of the Georgia Home Guard units and Sherman's raping and pillaging army, a Union soldier found a dying Reb on the battleground. The boy was only 13 years old. The Yankee asked the boy why he was in the fight. The boy just pointed in a direction behind him and said "home".