"is one of the easiest things in the world if a man only is lavish of the immense power which is by the military code granted to a Regimental commander."

“Charles Mattocks on VC Online”

“Mattocks' speech to the Maine Historical Society”

“When the two Regts. were panic-stricken they stood by me like heroes … Would I abandon men who showed themselves willing to give their own lives to save mine?”

“Considering the fact that the armies of the Northern and Southern States participated in the hardest fought battles of the nineteenth century, and the additional fact that Maine is the only State which has placed two regiments of different arms of the service at the head of the list in each of these aims, it seems but fitting that, as we proudly look back upon Maine's record in the great struggle for national life, we should be reminded of the career of a Maine soldier, who did much to render famous in the war the name of his native State.”