Both sides Quote by Sam Ervin

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Fred Kaplan

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

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or…

— Anthony Minghella

“The belief that the Civil War wasn’t for us was the result of the country’s long search for a narrative that could reconcile white…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S. Grant called…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

— Orson Bean

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

— Ed Helms

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and…

— John Stuart Mill

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