It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for w….

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act….

Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast majority ….

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die..

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are..

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war..

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing..

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be..

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and b….

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.….

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them..

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in..

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga..

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time..

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could d….

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done..

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ..

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs..