Quotes About Civil War

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

nation and the Framers of the Constitution. They were sufficiently worried about corporate power that they didn't even include in the Constitution the word corporation, intending instead that the states tightly regulate corporate behavior (which the states did quite well until just after the Civil War).

None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

When Mr.Cunningham ran outside during the battle shouting Hurrah for Jeff Davis!, a Union shot clipped his ear. Mr.Cunningham ran back inside his house. His cheering was over for the day.

The class focused on US history since the Civil War, but at every opportunity Mr. Hill guided them to the present, linking what had happened a hundred years ago to their current lives. They'd set off down one road at the beginning of class and it always led back to their doorsteps. Mr.

The class focused on US history since the Civil War, but at every opportunity Mr. Hill guided them to the present, linking what had happened a hundred years ago to their current lives. They'd set off down one road at the beginning of class and it always led back to their doorsteps.

The whole country is divided into two camps," wrote Dave Boone in the San Francisco Chronicle. "People who never saw a horse race in their lives are taking sides. If the issue were deferred another week, there would be a civil war between the War Admiral Americans and the Seabiscuit Americans.

Butler used slaveholders' own insistence that slaves were legal property to release slaves from owners' grasps and illustrated how war could create possibilities unavailable in peacetime. The phenomenon of the Civil War contraband camp was born.

Gen. Robert E. Lee was present, and, ignoring the action and presence of the negro, arose in his usual dignified and self-possessed manner, walked up the aisle to the chancel rail, and reverently knelt down to partake of the communion, and not far from the negro.

Here on a frontier back road more than half a century before the Civil War, two different, racialized definitions of sovereign liberty faced off against each other. The first, represented by Jackson, imagined "free born" to mean white born and "liberty" to mean the ability to do whatever they wanted, including to buy and sell humans and move them, unrestrained by interior frontiers, across a road that by treaty belonged to an indigenous nation.

reread James Street's Tap Roots and By Valour and Arms, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville, Bruce Catton's A Stillness at Appomattox, and all the works of Shelby Foote.

While many a Georgian condemned the Yankees for ravaging the countryside, it should be noted that the Confederates often treated Southerners just as badly, if not worse. Major

Not only did Confederate soldiers fight better; they also fought for a noble cause, the cause of state's rights, constitutional liberty, and consent of the governed. Slavery had nothing to do with it.

describing the Confederate army as a "dark, rebellious host.

James M. McPherson

the Southern soldier will go down in history dishonored.

The crisis of the 1860s represented a far greater threat to the survival of the United States than did World War I, World War II, Communism in the 1950s, or terrorism today. Yet compared with the draconian enforcement of espionage and sedition laws in World War I, the internment of more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans in the 1940s, McCarthyism in the 1950s, or the National Security State of our own time, the infringement of civil liberties from 1861 to 1865 seems mild indeed.

Davis and Stephens hewed to the same line: Southern states seceded not to protect slavery but to vindicate state sovereignty.

a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans

James M. McPherson

The Civil War marked a milestone in the transformation of nursing from a menial service to a genuine profession.

This belief in a Southern Unionist majority turned out to be a delusion.