Quotes from Soldiers, Politicians, Citizens, etc. of the Era

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"The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore
itself out whipping the enemy."

--- General Jubal Early, CSA

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I'm pretty sure this has been posted, but it's well worth repeating.

"Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be
written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern
school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version
of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and
education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed
veterans as fit subjects for derision."

--- General Pat Cleburne, CSA

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Usually only part of this is quoted; here is the main thrust of the quote, IMHO.

 
". . .a union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets and
in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love
and kindness has no charm for me. I shall mourn for my country and for
the welfare of mankind. If the union is dissolved and the government
disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of
my people, and save in defence, will draw my sword on none."

--- General Robert E. Lee, CSA

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
 
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

 
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)

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...."It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties."

 - Irish-born Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne from his January, 1864, letter which proposed the emancipation and enlistment of Black Southerners into the Confederate Army

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Federal Official Records, Series I, Vol XVI Part I, pg. 805 records: "There were also quite a number of negroes attached to the Texas and Georgia troops, who were armed and equipped, and took part in the several engagements with my forces during the day."

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Federal Official Records Series 1, Volume 15, Part 1, Pages 137-138: "Pickets were thrown out that night, and Captain Hennessy, Company E, of the Ninth Connecticut, having been sent out with his company, captured a colored rebel scout, well mounted, who had been sent out to watch our movements."

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"The iron hand of prejudice in the Northern States is as circumscribing and unyielding upon him as the manacles that fettered the slave of the South."-

The Negro in the American Rebellion; His Heroism and His Fidelity,
William Wells Brown, Lee & Shepherd, Boston, 1867, page 142

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"For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South..."

-- Col. James Arthur Lyon Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, British Army "Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863"

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[Johan Steele]

-For Most history is guessing and the rest is prejudice.   Will Durant