American Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

— Fred Kaplan

I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the Civil War,…

— Joseph Befumo

One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated…

— Gary Miller

“How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry—between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing?…

— Wendell Berry

I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the…

— Clive Cussler

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world -…

— Al Lewis

“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems…

— Iris Chang