If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“After the American civil war, the U. S. Navy also joined the anti-slave patrols in the Atlantic.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together -… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Harvey Hill expressed no regrets for his mulishness and no sympathy for what Lee was seeking to accomplish. “Genl. Lee is venturing… — Stephen W. Sears Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“If news of his impending doom bothered Jackson, he did not show it. He sent no urgent dispatches to Richmond; he asked… — S.C. Gwynne Copy Share Image
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
“a gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would sometimes join them, and listen for… — Russell S. Bonds Copy Share Image
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“They rode for a while in silence, a tiny island in the smoky stream of marching men. Then Lee said slowly, in… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“Richmond serves one purpose. Lee must defend it. If we threaten the city, he will have to confront us. Lee will soon… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“The politicians were in full bay, particularly those of his own party who had been urging, without success, his support of antislavery… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led… — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
“The movement to join Washington had a substantial following in the 1850s, centred in Montreal...It faced considerable resistance, though - in part… — Doug Saunders Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“We are never prepared for so many to die. So you understand? No one is. We expect some chosen few. We expect… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a… — James I. Robertson, Jr Copy Share Image
“Captain Werner Von Bachelle of the 6th Wisconsin in General John Gibbon’s Iron Brigade, who died on the Hagerstown Pike with his… — Carol Reardon Copy Share Image
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