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
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I… — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a… — Michael Novak 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
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Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice… — Robert E. Lee 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
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
“[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
“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
“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
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces… — Abraham Lincoln 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
You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them… — Philibert Orry 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
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“Farewell, we must part; we have turned from the land Of our cold-hearted brother, with tyrannous hand, Who assumed all our rights… — Frank Moore Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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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
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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![“[General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.” quote by Russell S. Bonds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/russell-s-bonds-89935_american-civil-war_general-in-chief-of-the-army-lieutenant_1203312.jpg)
