Why Fight? poll

"As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free."

-Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist, 1862

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"I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success."

-William T. Sherman, Union General, 1864

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"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the enslaved people I would do it."

-Abraham Lincoln, Union President, 1862

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"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace."

-Ulysses S. Grant, Union General, 1889

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"If the Union is dissolved...I shall return to my native State and share the miseries of my people, and, save in defense will draw my sword on none."

-Robert E. Lee, Confederate General, 1861

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"Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas: its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the [black man] is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."

-Alexander Stephens, Confederate Vice-President, 1861

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"My duty is to obey orders."

-Stonewall Jackson, Confederate General, 1891

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"This is done...from the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we inherited, and which it is our sacred duty to transmit unshorn to our children."

-Jefferson Davis, Confederate President, 1861

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