I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.