I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr 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
I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“My friends,” he began with good cheer, “how do you like this way of coming back into the Union?” He went on… — Stephen W. Sears Copy Share Image
“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr 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
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
“Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory,… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in… — Mary Boykin Chesnut 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
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams 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
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too.… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“[General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal… — Russell S. Bonds Copy Share Image
“I hear my father's voice. "Political differences divided what used to be America into The Nationalist States and The Patriot States: Then… — Mya Robarts Copy Share Image
I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
“these instances bore none of the harrowing features of racially motivated torture, mutilation, and cruelty endemic to Euro-American lynching of African Americans.… — Helmut Walser Smith 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
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the… — Henry Adams 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
“At one point they passed a newly abandoned Rebel encampment, and Captain Bowers was surprised to see that it looked just like… — Stephen W. Sears Copy Share Image
“In the closing years of John Wesley’s life, he became a friend of William Wilberforce. In England, Wilberforce was a great champion… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
