Civil war Quote by Brady Carlson

“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S. Grant called…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of the town…

— Greg Iles

“Of the tens of thousands of men who died in combat in the war, possibly as many as half lost their lives in vain.…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee’s men from insufficient and unsound…

— Bill O'Reilly

“The word began to filter down the lines, and the grumbling stopped, there was something new about this march, something these men had never…

— Jeff Shaara

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

— Shelby Foote

“Gettysburg was the last time Lee’s army would have the chance to be on the offensive during a campaign, as Grant’s Overland Campaign ground…

— Charles River Editors

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“Both Grant and Sherman were damaged souls who would redeem tarnished reputations in the brutal crucible of war.”

— Ron Chernow