" ... It will be a
glorious day for our country when all the children within its borders
shall learn that the four years of fratricidal war between the North and
South was waged by neither with criminal or unworthy intent, but by both
to protect what they conceived to be threatened rights and imperiled
liberty: that the issues which divided the sections were born when the
Republic was born, and were forever buried in an ocean of fraternal
blood."
-
Lieutenant General John B. Gordon, CSA
"The Confederate Soldiers
were our kinfolk and our heroes. We testify to the country our enduring
fidelity to their memory. We commemorate their valor and devotion. There
were some things that were not surrendered at Appomattox. We did not
surrender our rights and history, nor was it one of the conditions of
surrender that unfriendly lips should be suffered to tell the story of
that war or that unfriendly hands should write the epitaphs of the
Confederate dead. We have a right to teach our children
the
true history of that war, the causes that led up to it and the
principles involved."
Senator Edward W.
Carmack, 1903
