Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln

by Edward Achorn

Chase is a good man but his theology is unsound. He thinks there is a fourth person in the Trinity.”

Daniel Webster’s ringing defense of the Union in an 1837 speech: “One country, one destiny.”

He stood by me when I was crazy and I stood by him when he was drunk,” Sherman would say.

“I copied out a quote from The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman and taped it to my desk: ‘War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. And I say let us give them all they want.’”