If it is a crime to love the south, it's cause and it's President then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a goverment such as yours" Belle Boyd
"Then call us Rebels, if you will, we glory in the name, for bending under un just laws and swearing faith to an unjust cause we count as greater shame. Richmond Post Dispatch May 12, 1862
ROBERT E. LEE!!!
"We could have pursued no other couse without dishonor. And sad as the results have been, if it had all to be done again, we should be compelled to act in precisely the same manner." R.E. Lee
"All that the south has ever desired was the union as established by our forefathers should be preserved and that the goverment as organized should, be administered in purity and truth.
Gen R. E. Lee
" If I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory there would have been no surrender at Appomattox courthouse ; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men and my sword in this right hand." R. E. Lee spoken to former gov. Stockdale of Texas 1870
Lincoln quotes:
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slaves, I would do it... Abraham Lincoln August 22, 1862
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