top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Purpose quotes
"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."
"God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able."
Explore more quotes by Knute Nelson
"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."
"I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth."
"It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated."
"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."
"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."
bottom of page