Civil war Quote by Clint Johnson

“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed upon many…

— Burke Davis

South Carolina needs a Senator who cares about South Carolina, who fights for you, who understands and feels your pain, and works to address…

— Jaime Harrison

“You got the sense from being around them that no war in the history of South Carolina had ever ended, that they were still…

— Omar El Akkad

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

— Pat Conroy

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

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for…

— Donna Tartt

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And…

— Nikki Haley

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense…

— Kwame Dawes

“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“In any case, the example set by the Confederates in burning the village of Chambersburg, Pa., a town which was not garrisoned, would seem…

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

“RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR--[Written about 1870.]”

— Mark Twain