Bruce Catton History Quotations

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.