1861-62

President James Buchanan

Jefferson Davis

“Woe to those who began this war if they were not in bitter

earnest.” Mary Chestnut

“Students have all gone to war. College suspended.” Centenary

College registrar’s journal

“There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots, and I want

hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” Ulysses S. Grant

“You politicians have got things in a hell of a fix and you may get them out as best you can….I am going to St. Louis to take care of my family,

and will have no more with it.” William Tecumseh Sherman-1861

Bull Run, VA

“Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and it now flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.”

Jefferson Davis (CSA) after 1st Bull Run

“There is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South

have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy, and they have made what is more than either-they have made a nation. We may

anticipate with certainly the success of the Southern states.” William E. Gladstone, British Chancellor of the

Exchequer

General George McClellan

General Robert E. LeeCSA

Antietam-September 17, 1862