Alone Quote by Chesty Puller

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was…

— Corrine Brown

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

— Rollo May

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“Secretary Seward, who was Lincoln’s Secretary of State—a long-headed and shrewd politician—prophesied that the war would be over in ninety days; and young men…

— D.L. Moody

“As he reached the slight elevation he beheld the Confederate army sweeping down upon him. Their skirmish line fired at him, killing his orderly.…

— Warren Olney

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war.…

— Karen Abbott

Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the…

— James I. Robertson, Jr

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled…

— Robert E. Lee

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

— Bobby Riggs

I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in…

— Laurence Sterne

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

— Marianne Williamson

“Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we’re emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so strongly already.…

— Trae Crowder