Barrycdog
Major
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2013
- Location
- Buford, Georgia
"I apprehend that if all living Union soldiers were summoned to the witness stand, every one of them would testify that it was the preservation of the American Union and not the destruction of Southern slavery that induced him to volunteer at the call of his country. As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty percent of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union."
"Reminiscences of the Civil War," John B. Gordon
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"Reminiscences of the Civil War," John B. Gordon
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