Frederick Douglass: “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.