"It is history that teaches us to hope." R. E. Lee.

"The more you know, the more you find there is to know in this grand and beautiful world. It is only the ignorant who suppose themselves omniscient." R. E. Lee, 1863.

"The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited." R. E. Lee, 1868.

"Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision." General Pat Cleburne, CSA.

"The principle for which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." Jefferson Davis.

"A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history." General John B. Gordon.