April 9, 1865The Civil War takes a heavy toll of American lives
||“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.”
“It is well that war is so terrible—we should grow too fond of it.”
—Robert E. Lee
“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.”
—William Tecumseh Sherman
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
Many die not from bullets, but from disease and hardship. Others will survive, but be scarred in body and soul. Civilians, especially in the South, will suffer greatly as well.
But the Union will endure.
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