Matilda Pierce Alleman > Quotes

“Many a Union soldier would have gone to “Libby” or “Andersonville” had it not been for the loyalty and bravery of some of the citizens in thus secreting them.”
― Matilda Pierce Alleman, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle

“immortal words of Lincoln nurtured and guarded by a grateful people, this spot for all time to come cannot be other than the nation’s shrine of American virtue, valor and freedom. Here will posterity receive the same inspiration that prompted their ancestors to dare, to do and to die, for the perpetuity of the inestimable blessings that shall have come down to them.”
― Matilda Pierce Alleman, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle

“Soon the town was filled with infantry, and then the searching and ransacking began in earnest.”
― Matilda Pierce Alleman, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle

“The struggle between human bondage and universal freedom, the desire to destroy this government and dishonor her flag, the cruel hatred of Americans toward each other, no more blurs our fair land.”
― Matilda Pierce Alleman, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle

“is a pretty well established fact that many a brutal officer fell in battle, from being shot other than by the enemy. Shortly”
― Matilda Pierce Alleman, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle