"I hope this may not be a war of emancipation but of extermination, & that all under the influence of the foul fiend may be driven like swine into the sea. May we carry fire and sword into their states till not one habitation is left standing." ~ Ellen Sherman, wife of William T. Sherman
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"So you can imagine whether I had a chance to kill a Yank or not..."
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Battles
We hear much about a "New South." There is no New South.
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Soldier stories
We camped near what was called the Richmond bone yard. The next morning John Hutchinson looked around and declared he was insulted, as President Davis had us taken to the wrong place. He wanted it understood that our bones were not to be left there yet.
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Battles
...deaths in Northern prisons, 26,436; deaths in Southern prisons, 22,756.
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"General Custer, you will sleep in a bloody grave for this. Surely a just God will not permit such a crime to go unavenged."
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The Confederate defense of Fort Sumter would make a fantastic movie and is probably not nearly as well known as it should be.
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Battles
WE soldiers of the Southern army lacked many things. Sometimes we lacked almost everything.
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