Keith Hernandez Quotes

When I read that I had to go to Gettysburg.

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

All quiet along the Potomac.

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did Lee fail? In Lost Triumph, Tom Carhart offers a bold and provocative new assessment. Agree or disagree, it is sure to stimulate debate among even the most seasoned Civil War buffs.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

The American Civil War was the wrangling of two armed mobs.

Robert E. Lee was responsible for the deaths of more American soldiers than Hitler and Tojo.

I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans.

Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles - has been called by scholars the source of all modern political prose.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the Civil War, but I'm just getting more into it.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

Reelect Abraham Lincoln Save the Union Heal the Nation Give Me Another Shot

The Civil War still remains the crossroads of our being.

It took me longer to write the book on Lincoln than it took to fight the Civil War.