Quotes About Confederacy

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

The short-lived Confederate States of America was a signal event in the history of the Western world. What secessionists set out to build was something entirely new in the history of nations: a modern proslavery and antidemocratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal.

one of the first American "employers" to seize on the practical value of caffeine was the Union Army during the Civil War. The army issued each soldier thirty-six pounds of coffee a year at the same time the economic blockade of the South deprived the Confederacy of coffee.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

there is no conduct less politic, than to enter into any confederacy with your friend's servants against their master: for by these means you afterwards become the slave of these very servants; by whom you are constantly liable to be betrayed.

the essential fault lay with the Confederacy's failure to have produced a single good map of the approaches to its own capital.

Confederate soldiers were consistently brave, white Southern women were unquestioningly loyal, and "the cause" was indisputably noble.

While four slave states of the upper South had joined the Confederacy, another four (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, which together became known as the "loyal border states") remained in the Union.

Three hundred thousand white men from southern states donned Union uniforms during the war; one in three came from states that adhered to the Confederacy.

In fact, about five thousand white North Carolinians served in Union uniforms over the course of the war. Three thousand white Alabamians did the same thing, as did seven thousand white Louisianans and ten thousand white Arkansans. Virginia alone (especially its western counties) supplied some thirty thousand recruits. The largest single contingent hailed from Tennessee—some forty-two thousand in number.

Such people, one soldier acidly observed, certainly "would like" to see the Confederacy triumph "and no doubt weary heaven with their prayers for peace and independence." But they prayed at least as fervently "to get through with whole skins and full purses.

Stonewall Jackson was the symbol of Southern resistance, but his sister Laura, a Union sympathizer, remained unshaken in her devotion to the Old Republic, and was applauded for her stand by Federal soldiers. She sent a message by a Union soldier to the effect that she could "take care of wounded Federals as fast as brother Thomas would wound them.

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

Slavery in one way or another had been central to civil religion in the Union and the Confederacy, and with the coming of peace, the theological questions remained just as knotty.

Was there such a thing as politically correct remembrance of the Confederacy? Or was any attempt to honor the Cause inevitably tainted by what Southernerners once delicately referred to as their 'peculiar institution?

During the reign of President Donald Trump, who pandered to white nationalists and promised to protect monuments to the Confederacy, the GOP reverted to its earlier form with a vengeance. Due to the success of the Southern Strategy, Republicans are now unrecognizable as the party of Lincoln.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

If the Confederacy succeeded in starting a new country, based on slavery, it would destroy the special hope that the world's millions had vested in America.

The finances of the Confederacy are one of the great might-have-beens of American history.39 For, in the final analysis, it was as much a lack of hard cash as a lack of industrial capacity or manpower that undercut what was, in military terms, an impressive effort by the Southern states.

they felt a genuine distaste for the institution of slavery. But of at least equal importance was a sense that the Confederacy was not a good credit risk (after all, the Confederate president Jefferson Davis had openly advocated the repudiation of state debts when he was a US senator).

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this Sign, that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him.