This Mighty Scourge Quotes

“Grant’s reputation as a heavy drinker is based very little on evidence and a great deal on gossip, envy, and vengefulness.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“nobleness, the chivalry, the self-denial, the bravery, and the tireless endurance of the Confederate soldier should be instilled into every Southern child.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“UDC and UCV”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Rutherford’s”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“UCV”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“describing the Confederate army as a “dark, rebellious host.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“A chastened Wilson wrote a letter of apology on the official stationery of the New Jersey executive mansion, expressing himself “very much mortified” by his mistake.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“or too marginal and obscure to escape the censure of UCV and UDC watchdogs.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“long-legged Yankee lies and substitute approved books by Southern writers.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“We children were especially indignant at this affront,” so her sister “snatched the Grant book away to hurl it into the woodshed as ignominious trash.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Not only did Confederate soldiers fight better; they also fought for a noble cause, the cause of state’s rights, constitutional liberty, and consent of the governed. Slavery had nothing to do with it.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“The Confederacy “had surrendered but was never whipped.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“their unsullied honor became the foundation of the myth.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“The Lost Cause myth helped Southern whites deal with the shattering reality of catastrophic defeat and impoverishment in a war they had been sure they would win.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“The custodians of that memory won their postwar battle to celebrate the South’s Lost Cause as a valiant crusade for constitutional liberties and state’s rights that was overwhelmed only by brute force.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Edwards,”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Greeley”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Sons of Confederate Veterans.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“The romantic glorification of the Army of Northern Virginia by generations of Lost Cause writers has obscured this truth.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“mattered little to Rutherford’s avid readers that this supposed Rhodes quotation was a total fabrication, or that every one of her “facts” and “truths” cited above was false.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Rutherford”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“the Southern soldier will go down in history dishonored.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Truth”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“gallant”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Statues of Confederate soldiers”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“humanitarian slave regime”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“honor”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“noblest”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Whether both or neither was a legitimate government I leave to the reader.”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

“Revisionism”
― James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War