Quotes About McPherson

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their unsullied honor became the foundation of the myth.

WHEN THE NEWS REACHED ME of McPherson's victory at Raymond about sundown my position was with Sherman. I decided at once to turn the whole column towards Jackson and capture that place without delay.

Halleck had defended Grant from criticism after Shiloh, he still had reservations about Grant and relegated him to the largely meaningless position of second in command.

or too marginal and obscure to escape the censure of UCV and UDC watchdogs.

Grant's reputation as a heavy drinker is based very little on evidence and a great deal on gossip, envy, and vengefulness.

Whether both or neither was a legitimate government I leave to the reader.

Governor Beriah Magoffin

the right of revolution, is never a legal right. … At most, it is but a moral right, when exercised for a morally justifiable cause. When exercised without such a cause revolution is no right, but simply a wicked exercise of physical power."14