“Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer… — Shelby Foote 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
“A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a… — Shelby Foote 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
“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
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“Longstreet stayed up talking, as long as there was company, as long as there was a fire. Because when the fire was… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“[David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of… — Augustus Sol Invictus 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
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“He remembered the night in Arlington when the news came: secession. He remembered a paneled wall and firelight. When we heard the… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E. Lee 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
“The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs. — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
