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What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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- The antebellum propaganda war between North and South had created in southern minds an image of the hated Yankees as an amalgam of money-grubbing mudsill Black Republican abolitionist Goths and Vandals.
p. 19.5
- Why could they not, as Confederate War Department clerk John Jones suggested, merely return home to a northern nation and leave the South alone so that the two republics could live in peace as dual heirs of the Revolution?†
p. 30.3republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- Because, said northern soldiers almost as if in echo of Abraham Lincoln, once admit that a state can secede at will, and republican government by majority rule would come to an end.
p. 30.4 *
- Many Union soldiers voiced with extraordinary passion the conviction that preservation of the United States as "the beacon light of liberty & freedom to the human race," in the words of a thirty-five-year-old Indiana sergeant, was indeed the last, best hope for the survival of republican liberties in the Western world.
p. 30.7
- After Lee's surrender at Appomattox, a fifty-one-year-old New Jersey colonel who had fought the entire four years wrote to his wife that "we [can] return to our homes with the proud satisfaction that it has been our privilege to live and take part in the struggle that has decided for all time to come that Republics are not a failure."†
p. 31.4republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- A thirty-three-year-old Irish-born carpenter, a private in the 28th Massachusetts of the famous Irish Brigade, angrily rebuked both his wife in Boston and his father-in-law back in Ireland for questioning his judgment in fighting for the Black Republican Lincoln administration.
p. 32.1
- I have as much interest in the maintenance of ...the integrity of the nation as any other man....This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemys ...if it fail then the hopes of milions fall and the designs and wishes of all tyrants will succeed the old cry will be sent forth from the aristocrats of europe that such is the common lot of all republics....Irishmen and their decendents have ...a stake in [this] nation....America is Irlands refuge Irlands last hope destroy this republic and her hopes are blasted.†
p. 32.3republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- Of 562 Union soldiers whose letters or diaries I have read, 67 percent voiced simple but strong patriotic convictions and 40 percent went further, expressing ideological purposes such as liberty, democracy, majority rule, constitutional law and order, and survival of the Revolutionary legacy of republican government as the causes for which they fought.
p. 35.3
- And in his famous "cornerstone" speech of March 21, 1861, Alexander Stephens maintained that the Republican threat to slavery was "the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution" of Confederate independence.
p. 47.7
- Similarly, a farmer from the Shenandoah Valley informed his fiancée that he fought to win "a free white man's government instead of living under a black republican government," and the son of another North Carolina dirt farmer said he would never stop fighting Yankees who were "trying to force us to live as the colored race."
p. 53.1
- But young Welton became a Republican, and by early 1865 he sounded just like an abolitionist when he wrote in joyful anticipation of a restored nation "free free free yes free from that blighting curs Slavery the cause of four years of Bloody Warfare."
p. 65.8
- ' But why did these soldiers think that the "infernal rebellion" jeopardized the survival of the glorious republic?†
p. 30.2
- I have as much interest in the maintenance of ...the integrity of the nation as any other man....This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemys ...if it fail then the hopes of milions fall and the designs and wishes of all tyrants will succeed the old cry will be sent forth from the aristocrats of europe that such is the common lot of all republics....Irishmen and their decendents have ...a stake in [this] nation....America is Irlands refuge Irlands last hope destroy this republic and her hopes are blasted.†
p. 32.3
- A few months before he was killed at Fort Fisher, another New York noncom wrote to his brother that "this is no time to carp at things which, compared with the success and reestablishment of the Republic, are insignificant."†
p. 44.1
- On the eve of secession, a young lawyer in Shreveport looked forward to "a great cotton slave Republic—with a future the most auspicious that ever waited on earthly government."†
p. 48.2
- He lived to see the rise but not the fall of this republic, for he was killed at Gettysburg.†
p. 48.3
- Middle-aged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans held joint encampments at which they reminisced about the glorious deeds of their youth.†
p. 68.3
Definitions:
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(republic as in: the country is a republic) of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
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(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.