The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

The Battle of Mayberry (1966)

Hope Summers: Clara Edwards

Quotes 

• Clara Edwards : Now that's the sword that my great grandfather, Colonel Edwards carried all through the battle.

  Opie Taylor : What did he do in the battle?

  Clara Edwards : Hasn't anyone told you? He was the commanding officer. And when the other settlers, crazed with hunger and thirst wanted to give up, he led them in a stirring charge that broke the spirit of the indians and brought the final victory.

  Opie Taylor : Wow!

  Clara Edwards : Waving his sword in the air, he yelled at his men, "Onward boys! Do you want to live forever?".

• Aunt Bee Taylor : Well how did all these stories get started?

  Clara Edwards : That's here too. "Both sides realized that the true story of the battle would be a sorry tale to tell their womenfolk, so the story of the bloody Battle of Mayberry was conceived and born after the last shot had been fired."

• Aunt Bee Taylor : Oh, everybody's taken so much pride in the part their families played in the battle.

  Clara Edwards : There's not too much pride in 50 settlers and 50 indians sittin' around gettin' gassed.