Union-Confederate Pride

UsaCsaHeritage is a channel devoted to both sides of the American Civil War. Of course the Union soldiers will be honored, but the Confederate soldiers are often forgotten. This Channel is dedicated to inform and honor ALL Civil War veterans.




"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it."

General Lee to General Longstreet

"We'll fight them, sir, 'til hell freezes over, and then, sir, we will fight them on the ice."

A Confederate soldier at Gettysburg, in The Civil War by Shelby Foote

"There stands Jackson like a stone wall!"

General Bernard Bee, Fourth Alabama Brigade, of Thomas Jackson and his First Virginia Brigade, Manassas, Virginia, July 21, 1861

"A rich man's war and a poor man's fight..."

Southern opposition slogan, in The Civil War by Shelby Foote

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

President Abraham Lincoln, at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

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