L. Johnson Quotes

That is the way he was killed. The phrase, “We are bound to believe that, anyhow” indicates that Stuart really realized how futile the Southern war effort would be but loyalty and patriotism required him to suspend his rational belief structure.

He had is slightly wrong. He also printed another error—that Lee and Defeated Grant in a Battle. Seward, although very badly wounded, survived.

She was not alleging parity of the two sides here. While many of the military of the North tried to put the best face on battles, the Northern newspapers were actually savage about reporting Union casualties and battles lost—often exaggerating the ineptitude of the Union military leaders. In the South however, in most cases where there was a Union Victory the Southern papers reported it as a hard fought, high casualty, narrow victory for the South. The major Northern newspapers would also claim a Union victory hence her quotation. However, later she and many other educated Southerners really understood the that the South—all the institutions and most people tended to be in denial about the war. See {633930} for her more realistic view late the following year.

D. H. Hill. These are very important historical quotations in that they illustrate something that is not well known by most of us. In the decades before the Civil War there was a strong cultural enmity on the part of most Southerners of the Northern countrymen. It was so gross and overt that problems like this in a Southern college Algebra Text were not only published but used un schools throughout the South. Northerners were depicted in many of the Southern Cultural examples as duplicitous, greedy, dishonorable, cowardly, radical, irreligious, and extremist. The North did not have a very favorable view of Southerners who were perceived as uneducated, reactionary, anti-modern, lazy, hypocritical, cruel and backward – much implied by the acceptance of slavery. However the Northerners were not overt about their biases. These kinds of derogatory school problems were not acceptable. However the Northern bias was in some ways worse as it made most Northerners quite condescending when interacting with Southerners. After the Civil War, Southern education, culture, science and industry did not develop at the same pace as the North and the condescension continued well into the 20th century, at the end of which the South began to close the historical gap.

General Grant had just accepted the “Unconditional Surrender” of the 15,000 Confederate troops and 48 large cannon. Yet the South described the battle as a “standoff” and a “draw”. This quotation is very significant because it illustrates two very important dynamics of the Confederacy. First that the Southerners consistently lied to themselves and to each other about their situation in the war. Whether this was the elite manipulating the mass of the people or large scale self-delusion by most has been debated since. Second, Chesnut’s statement illustrates that it was common knowledge that the reports about the war were false and exaggerated for the Confederate side and just part of the extensive propaganda campaign of the Confederacy.

When he referred to "the noose" he was connoting one of the major ways the Southern Segregationists and racists maintained white supremacy and Jim Crowe after the Civil War: Lynching. They terrorized blacks and whites who had different views by kidnapping their victims, torturing them, hanging them, and often mutilating their bodies after the murder. They never were convicted because the Southern law enforcement officers were often part of the lynch mob, the judges were usually themselves racist segregationists, and if jurors voted to convict in the few cases that went to trial, they themselves were risking lynching. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched, 3,446 were black.

Sherman had friends in the South and he saw rebellion and war coming. Most Southerners had a romanticized view of war and were so wrapped up in trying to preserve their economic and cultural way of life that they did not think through the implications of such a war. After and during the war, he was particularly angry with the Southerners who had brought such terrible casualties and destruction upon the land and its people.

The Democrats used this quotation during the 1964 presidential campaign, in a famous TV ad with a little girl, a mushroom cloud and the announcer quoting Goldwater.

During the presidential debates George W. Bush stated that he would be very hesitant to use the military for nation building around the world. Less than a year later, the Bush administration, faced with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, launched a massive attack on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. After fighting and winning the war, the military soon realized that they would in fact be involved in nation building. However, with the assistance of the United Nations much of the humanitarian burden was lifted from the U.S. military.

Eggleston was an accomplished writer who had served in the Confederate army of the Civil War. 20 year after the war he wrote a series of articles for the prestigious Northern Atlantic Monthly trying to convey the war from the Southerner’s point of view.

Many historians argue that at this point the Confederacy was beaten and had they then surrendered everyone would have been much better off. But Davis and other Southern leaders, with their ideological and twisted moral logic dragged the war on for two more years and much of the South was destroyed making things even harder for the Southerners during Reconstruction.

He was leading the Gordon Highlanders of the British Army against the Boers during the Boer War. He was seriously wounded and could not go on himself with a charge he had ordered, However, waifing his sword he made this famous qutation. Particualrly noteorthy is the derrogatory terms which he used to describe the enemy--the Boers of South Africa. In many wars and cultures, one or more of the combatants, in order to overcome the avarage soldier's reluctance to kill an enemy, characterizes them as less than human. In this case, vermin, who were to be exterminated. There were two predominant groups of whites who came to South Africa, the English who were generally well-educated and were interested in trading with the exhisting inhabitants and investing in businesses using mostly native labot and the Boers. The latter were of Dutch and German origin, poor farmers with little or no land in the home country and little education. Their interest was to create a nation where they could own land to farm. And the lest expensive way for them to increase their farmland was to sieze it from the native Blacks and who were the major forces behind the racial discrimination which became apartheid. The British contolled the government and sought stability and as in most of the British Empire, they wanted English law to prevail including the rights of the Black natives. The Boers had left Europe for good and would thrive or not in Southern Africa. Proportiopnately, the English might have a career in South Africa or serve there for a few years. They were Englishmen in a foreign country. The Boers saw themselves as citizens of Southern Africa who were fighting the native Blacks for control of the land. The English legal system would not allow any of the land seizures and political discrimination that the Boers saw as existential for their survival in Africa. Soon, the Boers took more and more of the law into their own hands and saw English rule and dmination as inimical to their interests in Africa and they tried to create their own independent states in Southern Africa. That was the essense of the Boer Wars. Dick-Cunyngham was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration of Great Britain, for his exploits in the Afghan War.