Quotes about North vs. South

Helmuth von Moltke

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

More new technology was deployed in the Civil War than any other war in history and Moltke did not realize that the classic European military tactics were obsoleted. However, neither did most of the Southern Generals and many of the Union Generals. Lincoln, Grant and Sherman were the ones who developed strategies and tactics to function in the new world of warfare.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

OK then the South won’t get any blood!

Stephen Douglas

There can be no neutrals in this war [the Civil War]—only patriots or traitors.

James McPherson

The Civil war made us a nation rather then an association of states.

David Zabel

Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.

P. J. O'Rourke

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Claudette Colvin

New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

Paul Harris

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Betty Parsons

I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.

Joshua M. Zeitz

Magazines and newspapers commonly took to celebrating the military valor of both Confederate and Union soldiers, as though bravery, rather than morality, were the chief quality to be commemorated.

North vs. South Quotes