The Civil War Quotes

“A French count, as a volunteer officer with the Federal regiment, Gardes Lafayette, admired the delicious salad served in the headquarters mess.

"What meat is this?" he asked the cook one day. "I must take the recipe to France, It will be a sensation."

"Blacksnake," was the reply. The count paled, lost interest, and disappeared from the coterie of salad fanciers.”
― Burke Davis, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts

“Stonewall Jackson was the symbol of Southern resistance, but his sister Laura, a Union sympathizer, remained unshaken in her devotion to the Old Republic, and was applauded for her stand by Federal soldiers. She sent a message by a Union soldier to the effect that she could "take care of wounded Federals as fast as brother Thomas would wound them.”
― Burke Davis, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts

“A Virginia woman assailed me as "non-Southern" because of my account of the burning of Richmond by Confederates in To Appomattox - before reading the book. In her broadside she lumped me with the Soviet Union, the United States Supreme Court and Certain Republican Presidents fore and aft.”
― Burke Davis, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts

“In August, 1956, a Swedish bank teller cheerfully changed a $500 Confederate banknote for an enterprising customer, at the same favorable rate of exchange commanded by Federal currency in that season. His mistake was discovered only when it was much too late.”
― Burke Davis, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts

“On the other hand, a New Yorker charged me with hero worship of Lee and more: "Over-emphasis upon the Christianity of the butcher in a human slaughter business by one who was a parasitic blueblood all his life." This one is filed under "Views of the War, Marxist.”
― Burke Davis, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts