Arms Quote by John Brown Gordon

There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union…

— John Coleman

“The whole South was a military camp. The occupation of the colored people was to furnish supplies for the army. Conscription was resorted to…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than…

— Jim Webb

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and…

— Jurnee Smollett

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during the Civil…

— Jim Downs

“the great advantage the South possessed over the North at the beginning of the rebellion. They had from thirty to forty per cent. of…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson

In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely…

— Kami Garcia

These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized…

— Anonymous

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin

For the average person, 98 percent of those who fought in the Civil War, they did not own slaves. They were simply answering the…

— Corey Stewart