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“This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.”

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Lew Wallace was an American statesman, soldier, and author, best known for his novel 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1885. He served as a Union general during the American Civil War and later as the Governor of the New Mexico Territory, involved in various diplomatic missions and instrumental in the establishment of the Kingdom of Hawaii. more

Source: REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More

“The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.”

Ifs War Fighting Strong Civil War Kicks Rebel Consent Hearty Jackasses

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.”

Ifs War Broken Members Labor Constitution Civil War Exhausted Formation Broken Up Forbearance Framers

Author:Robert E. Lee

“The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.”

People War Curse Civil War

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“Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.”

Knows War Country Earth Liberty Remains Civil War Virginia

Author:Robert E. Lee

“I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.”

War Blood Mines Civil War Virginia

Book:The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps

Source: The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps

“Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United States...Lincoln was a great dictator....This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.”

Men War Self States Government Force United Effort Roles United States Successful Arms Unions Civil War One Man Dictatorship Dictator

Author:Clinton Rossiter

“The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.”

Men War Self Government Lasts Fall Fighting Generations Goes On Independence Slavery Track Acknowledge Civil War This Generation Self-government Extermination

Author:Jefferson Davis

“Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?”

Long War Enough Government Universe Pieces Fool Lows Civil War Knaves Fudge

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.”

I Can War Feelings Can Do Ability Position Willing Capacity Posts Civil War Suitable

Author:Robert E. Lee

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