Civil War General

Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil, war and/or general:

    “During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
    —Croesus (d. c. 560 B.C.)

    “That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)