Here are some fun quotes I found for everyone to enjoy!
“The South went to war on account of slavery. South Carolina went to war, as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln. South Carolina ought to know what was the cause for her seceding.“
“Now while I think as badly of slavery as Horace Greeley did I am not ashamed that my family were slaveholders. It was our inheritance. Neither am I ashamed that my ancestors were pirates and cattle thieves... People must be judged by the standard of their own age. If it was right to own slaves as property it was right to fight for it.”
“I’ve always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the north about. I’ve never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery.”
Colonel John S. Mosby
Commander, 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army