Civil War
- Luigi Palma di Cesnola
- Rank and organization: Colonel, 4th New York Cavalry
- Date and place of action: 17 June 1863, Battle of Aldie, Virginia
- Entered service at: New York, New York
- Date and place of birth: 29 June 1832, Rivarola, Piedmont, Italy
- Thomas W. Hyde
- Rank and organization: Major, 7th Maine Infantry
- Date and place of action: 17 September 1862, Antietam, Maryland
- Entered service at: Bath, Maine
- Date and place of birth: Florence, Italy
Read more about this topic: List Of Italian American Medal Of Honor Recipients
Famous quotes by civil war:
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
—Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)
“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)