American civil war Quote by Bruce Catton Download Open image “Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.” — Bruce Catton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American civil war Casualties Civil war History Shiloh War Waterloo
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“I remember a story I read once, a soldier, was it at Shiloh? He was talking to me but not with his whole attention.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes. — Charles Durning Copy Share Image
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life. — Steve Southerland Copy Share Image
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“The ground over which the bulk of the battles raged was only about eighty-five miles wide, a relatively modest battleground but a rather large… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“Across Europe some 11 million men lay dead, including 2 million Germans, 1.4 million Frenchmen, and 900,000 British. Another 21 million had been wounded,… — Liaquat Ahamed Copy Share Image
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in… — Bruce Catton 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. At Gettysburg… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity,… — Bruce Catton 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 the Florida… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. — Bruce Catton 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 a far light on the horizon. Many lights had died in the windy dark but far down the road there was always a gleam, and it was as if a legend had been created to express some obscure… — Bruce Catton Copy Share
“Early youth is a baffling time. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. Sooner or later you must… — Bruce Catton Copy Share
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited;… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg… — Bruce Catton 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 slavery .… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove… — Shelby Foote Copy Share
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln 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 of people's lives, lives that were changed forever. His men had done that. Not all of it, of course. The whole corps had seemed to go insane, had turned the town into some kind of violent party, a… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share