• William Howard Russell-
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall.
• Henry Adams-
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that.he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
• Horace Greeley-
The triumph of the Union is dispensable not only to the existence of our country to the well being of mankind.
• Abraham Lincoln-
From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that these dead.shall not have died in vain. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
• William Tecumseh Sherman
The south began the war by seizing forts, arsenals, mints, custom-houses, et cetera, et cetera, long before Mister Lincoln was installed, and before the south had one jot or tittle of provocation.
John L. Ransom
“Can see the dead wagon loaded up with twenty or thirty bodies at a time, two lengths, just like four foot wood is loaded on to a wagon at the North, and away they go to the grave yard on a trot Perhaps one or two will fall off and get run over. No attention paid to that; they are picked up on the road back after more. Was ever before in this world anything so terrible happening? Many entirely naked.”
Thursday, Nov. 24, 1864—“There is said to be a National Thanksgiving Day in the United States; I feel thankful to almighty God that my life has been spared so long, and that my condition is so much better than that of thousands around, and pray fervently that I may be spared to see my friends at home once more.”
• Abraham Lincol
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow?Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
Sunday, January 22, 1865—“Scurvy breaking out in my mouth, and skin generally disordered. Frightened!”
Monday, January 30, 1865—“All very sick
- almost helpless.”
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