“Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust) - Your Highlight on Location 51-51… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Success depended once again on speed and deception, qualities that residents of the Shenandoah Valley were beginning to associate with Thomas Jackson. •” — S.C. Gwynne Copy Share Image
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Spirit photos were sometimes made to remember someone who had died. During the American Civil War, when hundreds of thousands of people… — Avi 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
“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.” — Gertrude Stein 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
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast… — Bruce Catton 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
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“The word began to filter down the lines, and the grumbling stopped, there was something new about this march, something these men… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
