Civil War quotes

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... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as inde ...
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals ...
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it... ...
It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive t ...
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as s ...
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on! ...
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.
The death of William Tecumseh Sherman, which took place to-day at his residence in the city of New York at 1 o'clock and 50 minute ...
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