Author: B. Kent Anderson

Cites

• Ulysses S Grant (1)
  • IN: Cold Glory (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Constitution was not framed with a view to any such rebellion as that of 1861–5. While it did not authorize rebellion it made no provision against it. Yet the right to resist or suppress rebellion is as inherent as the right of self-defence, and as natural as the right of an individual to preserve his life when in jeopardy. The Constitution was therefore in abeyance for the time being, so far as it in any way affected the progress and termination of the war. It would be a hard case when one-third of a nation, united in rebellion against the national authority, is entirely untrammeled, that the other two-thirds, in their efforts to maintain the Union intact, should be restrained by a Constitution prepared by our ancestors for the express purpose of insuring the permanency of the confederation of the States.
    FROM: Personal Memoirs, (1885), Book, US
• Robert E. Lee (1)
  • IN: Cold Glory (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.
    FROM: NULL, (1861), Speech, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Silver Cross (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they covenanted with him thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought an opportunity to betray him.
    FROM: Matthew 26:15-16, (100), Bible, NULL
• Rose O' Neale Greenhow (1)
  • IN: Silver Cross (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Read history, and you will find that the causes which bring about a revolution rarely predominate at it's close, and no people have ever returned to the point from which they started.
    FROM: Letter to Hon. William H. Seward, (1861), Letter, US