Civil War Quotes

“The great misfortune of the South is, the leaders have been in advance of the people.”

“Lincoln is a barbarian.”

“I am not for the dissolution of the Union under any circumstances.”

“It was a trying moment to us, who had followed him so long, and who loved him so well.”

“These men were not fighting for slavery. I do not hesitate to say that fully three fourths of the soldiers of the Southern army were non-slaveholders.”

“The world should know that the last great battle of the war was fought by the cavalry under the immediate command of General Fitzhugh Lee.”

“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”