Two Quotes On Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln could not have won his elections without foreigners and would have had a harder time winning his war if every 4th Union soldier had not been an immigrant…. The civil war that broke out in Missouri at the beginning of the war resembled a fight between Confederate Americans and recently arrived German Unionists.

The German revolutionaries brought with them an aggressive drive to realize in America the goals that had been defeated in their homeland with the failure of the Revolutions of 1848.

Clyde Wilson
The Yankee Problem — pg. 97

“Had the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified . . . in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants.”

Lee Kennett
Marching through Georgia: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman, p. 286

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2 thoughts on “Two Quotes On Abraham Lincoln”

  1. As a German Confederate I hate to concede the truth of what’s being said here. I thank God for men like Heros Von Borcke and Augustus Buchel who balance the scales somewhat. Also, I think it’s well to bear in mind that many of the 48er emigrants were not welcome in Germany either.

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    1. Ron,

      My mother’s side of my family is German up and down the lines. I have one great great grandfather (My matrilineal Grandmother’s Grandfather — Silas Ross) who fought for the Yankees in that accursed war and a great-great-great grandfather (My matrilineal Grandfathers great grandfather — George Jacobs) who also fought for the Yankees … so I quite understand what you’re saying.

      We all have to live with our own past and the past of our people

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