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“These men, knowing full well that they were eyewitnesses to monumental events, read meaning and purpose into every detail of the surrender conference, and their accounts reveal that the seeds of continuing strife were sown at the very moment of Union victory and Confederate defeat.”
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
“Did Appomattox signify the triumph of right over wrong or of might over right?”
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
“According to Andrew Jackson Rogers, a New Jersey Democrat, “If you pass this bill you will allow the negroes of this country to compete for the high office of President of the United States”—no “civilized” country on earth gave rights to such “barbarians.”
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
“This was the crippling irony at the heart of the Confederate debates over the prospect of peace: the moments when Confederate military victories gave the South the greatest potential bargaining power were the very moments when Davis and the Confederate public were surest of their ultimate victory and therefore most unwilling to negotiate.”
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
― Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
