Biographies Quote by Ally Carter

“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during the Civil…

— Jim Downs

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

— Jack Scalia

As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest…

— John Brown Gordon

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a…

— Greg Iles

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

— Charles Duhigg

“Those who were die-hard supporters of the Confederacy, including many slaveholders, fled farther south to Texas, where they settled down to rebuild their lives…

— Andrew Himes

If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young…

— Hal Holbrook

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

— John Shelton Reed

“Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of the northern…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

— Nicholas Sparks

My own father and grandfather served in the Army.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

— Charo