The Civil War (documentary) Quotes
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“The Confederacy has been done to death by politicians.”
“He who does not see the hand of God in this is blind, sir, blind.”
“He would have a man shot at the drop of a hat, and he would drop it himself.”
“That man Grant will fight us everyday and every hour until the end of the war.”
“What makes it strange is that I should have gained twelve pounds living on worms.”
“The Fourth of July would not be celebrated in Vicksburg again for 81 years.”
“A man who would stay on an ironclad from choice is a candidate for the insane asylum.”
“I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.”
“Sherman will never go to hell. He'll flank the devil and make heaven in spite of the guards.”
“We have lost the Mississippi, and our nation is divided, and there’s not enough left to fight for.”
“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until after the egg is laid.”
“Here before God, in the presence of these witnesses, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery.”
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”
“What began as a bitter dispute over Union and State's Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.”
“May 7. If we were under any other General except Grant, I should expect to retreat. But Grant is not that kind of Soldier.”
“The country be damned, there is no country, there has been no country, for a year or more. You are the country to these men.”
“In less than six months, from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor to Petersburg, Grant had nearly destroyed his Army.”
“We are separated because of incompatibility of temper. We are divorced North from South, because we hated each other so.”
“His name might be audacity! He will take more chances and take them quicker than any other General in this country, north or south.”
“Robert E. Lee swore renewed allegiance to the United States, and by so doing persuaded thousands of his former Soldiers to do the same.”