If you persist in your purpose of secession, there... -Ambrose Burnside

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

Ambrose Burnside , Politician
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Ambrose Burnside was an American politician and Civil War general. He served as a United States Senator and as the Governor of Rhode Island. Burnside's political career and his military contributions during the Civil War have made him a notable figure in American history.

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So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be ...
Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitut...
I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition ...
The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the bene...
The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to th...
The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment se...

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