Tag: Civil War.

Quotes October 08, 2021

“In the present Civil War – it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.”
Abraham Lincoln.
 
 
 
 
“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.”
Robert E. Lee.
 
 
 
 
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”
Jefferson Davis, ‘The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government, Volume 1’.
 
 
 
 
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”
John H. Brown.
 
 
 
 
“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”
Ulysses S. Grant.
 
 
 
 
“I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.”
Nathan Bedford Forrest.
 
 
 
 
“It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.”
Stonewall Jackson
 
 
 
 
“All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.”
Sam Houston

Quotes October 30, 2020

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
Montesquieu
 
 
 
 
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
Anthony Lewis
 
 
 
 
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
 
 
 
 
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
Anthony H. Cordesman
 
 
 
 
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
Francois Fenelon
 
 
 
 
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.
Robert E. Lee
 
 
 
 
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things… It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.
We’ll fight them, sir, ’til hell freezes over, and then, sir, we will fight them on the ice.
Shelby Foote
 
 
 
 
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
Alphonse De Lamartine
 
 
 
 
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
Ulysses S. Grant
 
 
 
 
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman
 
 
 
 
Causes of Civil War are also, that the wealth of the nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be soldiers.
William Petty
 
 
 
 
Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards… Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.
Alexander H Stephens
 
 
 
 
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
Jefferson Davis
 
 
 
 
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
 
 
 
 
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
Nuruddin Farah
 
 
 
 
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
John Brown
 
 
 
 
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep – not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
Nick Turse
 
 
 
 
The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
James Monroe
 
 
 
 
The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
Donald McCaig

Army Corps of Engineers’ 1st MoH Recipient Earned it for Years of Service

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Army veteran Frederick William Gerber was one of those men. He served over the span of 32 years throughout the 1880s, during the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.

Army Corps of Engineers’ 1st MoH Recipient Earned it for Years of Service