For myself, I confess that the terrors of the battlefield grew not less as we advanced in the war, for I felt far less fear in the second battle of Manassas than at South Mountain or even at Fredericksburg; and I believe that soldiers generally do not

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For myself, I confess that the terrors of the
battlefield grew not less as we advanced in the
war, for I felt far less fear in the second
battle of Manassas than at South Mountain or even
at Fredericksburg and I believe that soldiers
generally do not fear death less because of their
repeated escape from its jaws. For, in every
battle they see so many new forms of death, see
so many frightful, and novel kinds of mutilation,
see such varying fortunes in the tide of strife,
and appreciate so highly their deliverance from
destruction, that the dread of incurring the like
fearful perils unnerves them for each succeeding
conflict, quite as much as their confidence in
their oft tried courage sustains them and
stimulates them to gain new laurels at the
cannons mouth. John Dooley
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The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the
world because of offenses for it must needs be
that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom
the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that
American slavery is one of those offenses which,
in the providence of God, must needs come, but
which, having continued through His appointed
time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives
to both North and South this terrible war as the
woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall
we discern therein any departure from those
divine attributes which the believers in a living
God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope,
fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of
war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills
that it continue until all the wealth piled by
the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of
unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every
drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid
by another drawn with the sword, as was said
three thousand years ago, so still it must be
said "the judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Inaugural Address
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When I got at the feelings of these people I
found they were not afraid of the slaveholders.
They said there was nobody on the plantations but
women and they were not afraid of them. One woman
came through 200 miles in Mens clothes.
Colored men will help colored men and they will
work along the by paths and get through. In that
way I have known quite a number who have gone up
from time to time in the neighborhood of Richmond
and several have brought back their families
some I have never heard from. As I was saying
they do not feel afraid now. The white people
have nearly all gone, the blood hounds are not
there to hunt them and they are not afraid
Capt. Charles B. Wilder, Superintendent of
Contrabands at Fortress Monroe, Va., May 9, 1863
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the paper Proclamation must now be made iron,
lead, and fire, by the prompt employment of the
negros arm in this contest. Frederick
Douglass, February 6, 1863
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the paper Proclamation must now be made iron,
lead, and fire, by the prompt employment of the
negros arm in this contest. Frederick
Douglass, February 6, 1863
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Thirteenth Amendment Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States,
or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Ratif
ied 1865
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