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	"THE WAR MUST GO ON TILL THE LAST MAN OF THIS GENERATION FALLS IN HIS TRACKS UNLESS YOU ACKNOWLEDGE OUR RIGHT TO SELF-GOVERNMENT. WE ARE NOT FIGHTING FOR SLAVERY. WE ARE FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE, AND THAT, OR EXTERMINATION, WE WILL HAVE." .... JEFFERSON DAVIS ( (1808-1889 ) "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 INDIVIDUAL, BUT THAT WHICH SHOWS THE PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH THE SOUTH CONTENDED AND JUSTIFIED HER STRUGGLE FOR THOSE PRINCIPLES." .... ROBERT E. LEE (1807 - 1870) "THE ASSERTION THAT THE SOUTH FOUGHT FOR SLAVERY IS YANKEE PROPAGANDA AND A MONSTROUS DISTORTION." .... JEFFERSON DAVIS (1808 - 1889) "ALL THAT THE SOUTH EVER DESIRED WAS THE UNION AS ESTABLISHED BY OUR FOREFATHERS SHOULD BE PRESERVED AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT AS ORIGINALLY ORGANIZED SHOULD BE ADMINISTERED IN PURITY AND TRUTH." .... ROBERT E. LEE (1807 - 1870) "TO BE A GOOD SOLDIER YOU MUST LOVE THE ARMY, TO BE A GOOD GENERAL YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO ORDER THE DEATH OF THE THING YOU LOVE,AND THERIN LIES THE GREAT TRAP OF SOLDIERING WHEN YOU HOLD NOTHING BACK .... ROBERT E. LEE (1807 - 1870) "IT IS WELL THAT WAR IS SO TERRIBLE,OR WE SHOULD GROW TOO FOND OF IT" .... ROBERT E. LEE (1807 - 1870) "ANY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS NATION HAS TO BE BASED AND I MEAN REALLY BASED ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CIVIL WAR I BELIEVE THAT FIRMLY. IT DEFINES US. THE REVOLUTION DID WHAT IT DID. OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE EUROPEAN WARS, BEGINNING WITH FIRST WORLD WAR, DID WHAT IT DID. BUT THE CIVIL WAR DEFINED US WHAT WE ARE, AND IT OPENED TO US WHAT WE BECAME, GOOD AND BAD THINGS. AND IT IS VERY NECESSARY IF YOU ARE GOING TO UNDERSTAND THE AMERICAN CHARACTER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, TO LEARN ABOUT THIS ENORMOUS CATASTROPHE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. IT WAS THE CROSSWORDS OF OUR BEING, AND IT WAS A HELL OF A CROSSWORDS." ..... SHELBY FOOTE "LET US BE CERTAIN THAT OUR CHILDREN KNOW THAT THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES WAS NOT A CONTEST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF SLAVERY, AS SOME WOULD HAVE THEM BELIEVE, BUT THAT IT WAS A GREAT STRUGGLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, AND THAT MEN WHO FOUGHT WERE WARRIORS TRIED AND TRUE, WHO BORE THE FLAGS OF A NATION'S TRUST, AND FELL IN A CAUSE, THOUGH LOST, STILL JUST, AND DIED FOR ME AND YOU." .... J. TAYLOR ELLYSON (CONFEDERATE VET AND POST-WAR MAYOR OF RICHMOND,VIRGINIA) "WE OWE IT TO OUR DEAD, TO OUR LIVING, AND TO OUR CHILDREN TO PRESERVE THE TRUTH AND REPEL THE FALSEHOODS, SO THAT WE MAY SECURE JUST JUDGEMENT FROM THE ONLY TRIBUNAL BEFORE WHICH WE MAY APPEAR AND BE FULLY AND FAIRLY HEARD, AND THAT TRIBUNAL IS THE BAR OF HISTORY." .... ROBERT E. LEE (1807-1870) "IF I EVER DISOWN,REPUDIATE,OR APOLOGIZE FOR THE CAUSE FOR WHICH LEE FOUGHT AND JACKSON DIED, LET THE LIGHTNINGS OF HEAVEN REND ME, AND THE SCORN OF ALL GOOD MEN AND TRUE WOMEN BE MY PORTION. SUN, MOON,STARS ALL FALL ON ME WHEN I CEASE TO LOVE THE CONFEDERACY. 'TIS THE CAUSE, NOT THE FATE OF THE CAUSE, THAT IS GLORIOUS!" .... MAJ. R.E. WILSON, CSA

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