Army Quote by John Coleman

As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest…

— John Brown Gordon

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These…

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

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

“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

[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was…

— G. Edward Griffin

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured…

— Lerone Bennett, Jr

“Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of the northern…

— Allen C. Guelzo

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not…

— Booker T. Washington

This war is not about slavery.

— Robert E Lee

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was…

— G. Edward Griffin