Dee Brown on the Civil War Quotes

“They were possessed, he said, “of that old invincible race ideal of personal liberty, and that old, unreckoning, truculent, animal rage at whatever infringes on it…the old sense of personal privacy and reserve which has for centuries entrenched the Englishman in the heart of his estate.” For they were of English blood, most of them, “usually”
― Dee Brown, Dee Brown on the Civil War: Grierson's Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees