James M. McPherson Quote

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


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...