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I've always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the north about. I've never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery.

— John S. Mosby Letter (1894)

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The South went to war on account of slavery.

Letter to Samuel "Sam" Chapman (1907)

South Carolina ought to know what was the cause for her seceding. The truth is the modern Virginians departed from the teachings of the Father's.

Letter to Samuel "Sam" Chapman (1907)

There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him.

Letter to Samuel "Sam" Chapman (1907)

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first than the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.

War Loses Its Romance (1887)

I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery, a soldier fights for his country, right or wrong, he is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in. The South was my country.

Letter to Samuel "Sam" Chapman (1907)

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