The bottom line in the Civil War, after all is said and done, showed that every Confederate state was a slave state and every free state was a Union state. These facts were not a coincidence, and every Civil War soldier knew it.


North & South Magazine (January 2008), Vol. 10, No. 4, p. 59

James M. McPherson Quotes

The bottom line in the Civil War, after all is said and done, showed that every Confederate state was a slave state and every free state was a Union...

The bottom line in the Civil War, after all is said and done, showed that every Confederate state was a slave state and every free state was a Union...

The bottom line in the Civil War, after all is said and done, showed that every Confederate state was a slave state and every free state was a Union...

The bottom line in the Civil War, after all is said and done, showed that every Confederate state was a slave state and every free state was a Union...