“Americans are forever proclaiming our boastful aspersions to the world . . . that our government was based on the consent of the people,” though in fact “it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed.” ~ Letter from Robert E. Lee to E.G.W. Butler, Oct. 11, 1867
“[H]ad the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified . . . in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants.” ~ Lee Kennett, Marching through Georgia: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman, p. 286
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