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
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
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.” — Shelby Foote 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 scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman 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
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
“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
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
“Confederates in Jackson’s column reported seeing a Yankee balloon—it was the Eagle—and assumed that if they could see it, it could see… — Stephen W. Sears Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen 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
“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
“A full appreciation of this crucial position requires an examination of the Confederate defense on this side of Antietam Creek and a… — Carol Reardon Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama 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
“My first recollection of that day was that early on the morning of September 17, we were all in the cellar with… — Carol Reardon 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
“While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they… — Sam R. Watkins Copy Share Image
What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent,… — Bruce Catton 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
“It is recorded that during the long winter after the Battle of Fredericksburg, when the two rival armies were camped on opposite… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“Hong’s message fired the imagination of millions of desperate Chinese, who were shaken by China’s defeats in the Opium Wars and by… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“After the American civil war, the U. S. Navy also joined the anti-slave patrols in the Atlantic.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
