“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“But, sadly, our manly struggle to conform to the slave-like work rhythms of present-day custom has led to the nap being replaced… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“This dark-brown viscous liquid, a by-product in the processing of sugar cane, played a major role in some of the biggest events… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
“In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps: "The method of searching the swamps is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their… — Sean Hannity 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
“The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder;… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
Yes, the rise in corporate power had roots in the gearing up for the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was a Whig, a… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood… — William C. Oates Copy Share Image
“Freed slaves returned to Africa settled in a section of what was known as the “Pepper Coast” and on July 26, 1847,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
