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What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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Like Lincoln, many northern soldiers saw secession as a deadly challenge to the foundation of law and order on which all societies must rest if they are not to degenerate into anarchy.†
p. 32.4
"The central idea of secession," said Lincoln, "is the essence of anarchy."†
p. 32.5 *
To reject this outcome would destroy the basis of constitutional democracy, said Lincoln, and "fly to anarchy or to despotism."†
p. 32.6
We are "fighting for the maintenance of law and order," they wrote, "to assert the strength and dignity of the government" against the threat of "dissolution, anarchy, and ruin."†
p. 32.7
A twenty-three-year-old printer from Philadelphia, a private in the 71st Pennsylvania wounded while helping to repel Pickett's assault at Gettysburg, wrote to his father that any sacrifice was worth the cost, "for what is home with all its endearments, if we have not a country freed from every vestige of the anarchy, and the tyrannical and blood thirsty despotism which threatens on every side to overwhelm us?"†
p. 33.1
Admit the right of the seceding states to break up the Union at pleasure ...and how long will it be before the new confederacies created by the first disruption shall be resolved into still smaller fragments and the continent become a vast theater of civil war, military license, anarchy and despotism?†
p. 33.4

Definitions:

(1) (anarchy)
the complete absence of political authority; or more generally, complete absence of order
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)