The Authors Of All Our Misfortune.

Truthfulness Is A Cornerstone In Character, And If It Be Not Firmly Laid In Youth, There Will Ever After Be A Weak Spot In The Foundation.

The War...must Go On Till The Last Man Of This Generation Falls In His Tracks...unless You Acknowledge Our Right To Self-government. We Are Not Fighting For Slavery. We Are Fighting For Independence,and That, Or Extermination, We Will Have.

African Slavery, As It Exists In The United States, Is A Moral, A Social, And A Political Blessing.

Nothing Fills Me With Deeper Sadness Than To See A Southern Man Apologizing For The Defense We Made Of Our Inheritance. Our Cause Was So Just, So Sacred, That Had I Known All That Has Come To Pass, Had I Known What Was To Be Inflicted Upon Me, All That My Country Was To Suffer, All That Our Posterity Was To Endure, I Would Do It All Over Again.

Vicksburg Is The Nail Head That Holds The South’s Two Halves Together.