Civil War Quotes

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

Stonewall Jackson

Civil War Quotes

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A great though for the end of the year!!!!!

Civil War Quotes

With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army, and save in defense of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword...

Robert E. Lee

Civil War Quotes

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'."


Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

Civil War Quotes

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”

William Tecumseh Sherman

Civil War Quotes

It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it.


Robert E. Lee

Civil War Quotes

“In our Country . . . one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”

William Tecumseh Sherman

"It seems that things rarely change."

Don Hogan