War Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

“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

“I was afraid, every morning, that I would awake from my sleep to hear that Lee had gone, and that nothing was left but…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“I had reason to believe that the administration was a little afraid to have a decisive battle at that time, for fear it might…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Quiet down! You're supposed to be dead!" snapped a passing Union soldier. "This is a private conversation," Margaret snapped back. "This is a battle,"…

— Kristan Higgins

“In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his readiness to…

— John Lewis

“Among other embarrassments, at the time of which I now write, was the fact that the government wanted to get out all the cotton…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery; history would…

— Cynthia Bass

Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol grounds.

— Roy Cooper

“Those women talked about me, the men probably did too. But none of them knew what I had, where I was going, who I…

— Nnedi Okorafor

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were…

— Nayan Chanda