Transcript *Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man

“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a
Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our
inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that
had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what
was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to
suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would
do it all over again.”
Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1807/1808 –
December 6, 1889) was an American
soldier and politician, and was the
President of the Confederate States of
America (the former seceded southern
states of the United States of America)
during the American Civil War, 1861 to
1865
About him U.S. Supreme Court Chief
Justice Roger B. Taney said that he or
former slaves and their descendants had
“no rights which the white man was bound
to respect.”
Dred Scott - was an enslaved African
American man in the United States who
unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and
that of his wife and their two daughters
in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857,
popularly known as the "Dred Scott
Decision."
I feel incompetent to perform
duties... which have been so
unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson-17th President of
the United States, serving from
1865 to 1869. Johnson became
president as he was Vice President
at the time of President Abraham
Lincoln's assassination.
Sic semper tyrannis is a Latin
phrase meaning "thus always to
tyrants".
John Wilkes Booth (May 10,
1838 – April 26, 1865) was
an American stage
actor who assassinated
President Abraham Lincoln
at Ford's Theatre in
Washington, D.C., on April
14, 1865.
I have been up to see the Congress
and they do not seem to be able to do
anything except to eat peanuts and
chew tobacco, while my army is
starving.
Robert E. Lee - American soldier
best known for commanding the
Confederate Army of Northern
Virginia in the American Civil War
from 1862 until his surrender in
1865
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with
firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up
the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to
do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a
lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln- the 16th
president of the United States,
serving from March 1861 until his
assassination in April 1865. Lincoln
led the United States through its
Civil War.
The white man's happiness
cannot be purchased by the
black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass-African-American
social reformer, orator, writer,
and statesman. After escaping from
slavery, he became a leader of
the abolitionist movement. Douglass
wrote several autobiographies.
If you see the President, tell
him from me that whatever
happens there will be no
turning back.
18th President of the United
States (1869–1877). In 1865, as
commanding general, Grant led
the Union Armies to victory
over the Confederacy in the
American Civil War.
It is said the South will never submit — that we cannot conquer the rebels —
that they will suffer themselves to be slaughtered, and their whole country to
be laid waste. Sir, war is a grievous thing at best, and civil war more than any
other ; but if they hold this language, and the means which they have
suggested must be resorted to ; if their whole country must be laid waste and
made a desert, in order to save this Union from destruction, so let it be. I
would rather, Sir, reduce them to a condition where their whole country is to
be re-peopled by a band of freemen, than to see them perpetrate the
destruction of this people through our agency. I do not say it is time to resort
to such means, and I do not say that the time will come, but I never fear to
express my sentiments. It is not a question with me of policy, but a of
question principle.
• Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 –
August 11, 1868) was a member of the
United States House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania and one of the
leaders of the Radical Republican faction
of the Republican Party during the 1860s
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all
moonshine. It is only those who have
neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks
and groans of the wounded who cry
aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
War is hell.”
William T. Sherman - American soldier,
businessman, educator and author. He
served as a General in the Union Army
during the American Civil War. Famous
for his scorched earth policy in his march
to the sea against the Confederacy.