Civil war Quote by Eudora Welty

“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”

— Jefferson Davis

“MR. VAN BUREN DIED IN THE ARMS OF HIS LOVER, ANNABELLE WHITAKER, IN TENNESSEE. HIS WIFE, MAGS, CAN NOW REST IN PEACE.”

— Lauren K. Denton

Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing…

— Jeffrey Rosen

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

— Andrew Jackson

“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of congressmen took…

— Edward E. Baptist

“The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation…

— George Saunders

“It’s hard to imagine that Clarence was once a normal person, a college student, football player and bespectacled counselor at the Jamesburg State Home…

— Bruce Springsteen

“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and…

— Ron Chernow

“in May, 1860, removed to Galena, Illinois, and took a clerkship in my father’s store.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Despite a legacy consisting of enough violence and death for twenty men, Jackson admitted to having two regrets on his deathbed: “I didn’t shoot…

— Daniel O'Brien

“. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .”

— Robert Penn Warren