Civil war Quote by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“Grant Foreman, the leading authority on Indian removal, estimates that during confinement in the stockade or on the march westward four thousand Cherokees died.…

— Howard Zinn

“Of the tens of thousands of men who died in combat in the war, possibly as many as half lost their lives in vain.…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“As for the Cherokees, they faced a set of laws passed by Georgia: their lands were taken, their government abolished, all meetings prohibited. Cherokees…

— Howard Zinn

“On October 1, 1838, the first detachment set out in what was to be known as the Trail of Tears. As they moved westward,…

— Howard Zinn

“These were not idle threats. Suspected labor agents were arrested routinely whenever a trainload of African Americans left or when the fields were empty…

— Carol Anderson

“Thus, the day ended in a tactical stalemate, with the Union suffering nearly 12,500 casualties (including over 2,000 dead) and the Confederates suffering over…

— Charles River Editors

It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal…

— Wilma Mankiller

“During this time Jefferson Davis made a speech in Macon, Georgia, which was reported in the papers of the South, and soon became known…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself…

— Dorothy Allison

“More than 150 Cheyenne, mostly women and children, were murdered in cold blood that day, in a massacre that is now widely regarded as…

— Hampton Sides

“I have for some days held and controlled every avenue by which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and I am…

— William T. Sherman

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but…

— Frederick Douglass