On the Altar of Freedom Quotes

“If a person were to ask me what I saw South, I should tell him stink weed, sand, rattlesnakes, and alligators. To tell the honest truth, our boys out on picket look sharper for snakes than they do for rebels.”
― James Henry Gooding, On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front

“The American people, as a nation, knew not what they were fighting for till recently, and many have different opinions now as to the ends and results of the contest. But there is but two results possible, one is slavery and poverty and the other is liberty and prosperity.”
― James Henry Gooding, On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front

“We have heard so many different rumors, about different subjects, that we are rather slow to believe anything we don't see. (Money especially.)”
― James Henry Gooding, On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front