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
Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results. — William C. Oates Copy Share Image
I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs. — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag. — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to… — William Tecumseh Sherman 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
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
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
“An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln’s safety. Much to Coffin’s surprise, the President “lifted his own hat… — Noah Andre Trudeau 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
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.… — Bruce Catton 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
“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed… — Burke Davis Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton 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
“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
“Across the river he could see the burnt and crushed buildings of Fredericksburg, the debris piled along the streets, the scattered ruins… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky, seeing… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“The American Civil War lays out the stark contrast: the greatest generals in war are often abundant failures during peacetime, and vice… — Nassir Ghaemi 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
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. — Abraham Lincoln 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
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall… — Joseph Hooker Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
