Hello Leah........Good Luck with your search. I'm not sure who made the quote but this may be helpful....Check out the last sentence please.... Spotsylvania Court House, a tiny crossroads village in Virginia, was southeast of the Wilderness, where a major battle had been fought May 5-7, 1864. Throughout the night of May 7-8, the Union and Confederate armies moved toward the settlement. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant intended to interpose his army between Gen. Robert E. Lee's and Richmond to force the Confederate leader to attack the powerful Union command. Lee anticipated the maneuver and advanced to intercept the threat.

Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson's Confederate corps won the race on the 8th, repulsing the leading Federal units. Both commanders funneled troops into action west of the village, where Lee's veterans stubbornly defended their position. That night and throughout the next day the Confederates erected forbidding field-works. A determined Grant sent 3 corps against the Southern entrenchments May 10th. The Federal reeled before the crippling fire. At 6 p.m. at the "mule shoe" salient in the center of Lee's line, Col. Emory Upton, massing 12 regiments on a narrow front, breached the Confederates works but could not expand the penetration.

Upton's success persuaded Grant to use similar tactics but with a corps. At 4:30 a.m., May 12th, Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's corps struck the tip of the salient. Almost an entire Confederate division was captured but additional units blunted the breakthrough. For 20 hours the opponents, in a severe rainstorm, engaged in some of the war's most vicious fighting. Lee erected a new line at the base of the salient and withdrew to it. Grant assaulted these new works 6 days later, only to be repulsed at a fearful loss.

The next day, May 19th, Lee's demonstration against Grant's right resulted in severe fighting. Grant withdrew 2 days later, once more endeavoring to move beyond Lee's right. "We have met a man, this time," a Confederate wrote of Grant, "who either does not know when he is whipped, or who cares not if he loses his whole Army."