Hymns of the Republic Quotes

“Mainly, though, he understood that, no matter what was happening to him, it was the way he thought about it that mattered.”
― S.C. Gwynne, Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

“Death is popularly considered the maximum punishment of the war, but it is not,” he wrote. “Reduction to poverty brings prayers for peace more surely and more quickly than does the destruction of human life, as the selfishness of man has demonstrated in more than one great conflict.”
― S.C. Gwynne, Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War