150 Years Ago Yesterday
11 states illegaly seceded from our union and took up arms against her fragile soul
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC
4 years later the last vestige of feudialism and class would be eradicated from American society, it's a shame it took a 100 more years for de jure to become de facto
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
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