Bruce Catton Quotes About War

• La Guerra Civil se libró en 10.000 lugares, desde Valverde, Nuevo México, y Tullahoma, Tennessee, hasta St. Albans, Vermont, y Fernandina, en la costa de Florida. Más de 3 millones de estadounidenses lucharon en ella, y más de 600.000 hombres, el 2 por ciento de la población, murieron en ella.

  Bruce Catton

  Guerra, Lucha, Hombres

• A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.

  Bruce Catton

  Paz, guerra, victoria

  Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

  Bruce Catton

  Country, War, Numbers

• What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.

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  War, Struggle, Rights

• The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

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  War, History, Southern

• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

• The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

  Bruce Catton

  War, History, United States

• Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

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  War, Moving, Greatness

  Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (1960). “The Civil War”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

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  War, History, Soldier

• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  Guerra, Noche, Hombres

• Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

  Bruce Catton

  War, History, Casualties

• Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

  Bruce Catton

  Caballo, Guerra, Hombres

  Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (2014). “American Heritage History of the Civil War”, p.105, New Word City

• Lo que un general podía hacer, Thomas lo hacía; no existía ni existió jamás en el continente norteamericano un soldado más fiable para un momento de crisis... Thomas pasa a la historia como la Roca de Chickamauga, el gran luchador defensivo, el hombre al que nunca se pudo echar, pero que no era muy ofensivo. Puede que sea una apreciación correcta, pero también merece la pena señalar que sólo dos veces en toda la guerra un gran ejército confederado fue expulsado de una posición preparada en una derrota completa: en Chattanooga y en Nashville. En cada ocasión el golpe que lo derrotó fue lanzado por Thomas.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Army, Blow

• Los soldados que habían estado en el ejército el tiempo suficiente para saber lo que es una sangrienta estafa la guerra realmente comenzaría a sentir que la vida del ejército era realmente una especie de diversión, siempre y cuando [General Philip] Sheridan estaba en el frente.

  Bruce Catton

  Fun, War, Army

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