{"quotes":[{"text":"I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.","author":"Montesquieu","tags":["christendom","civil-war","kingdom-of-christ","religious-violence","violence","war"],"id":1702,"author_id":"Montesquieu"},{"text":"Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.","author":"Robert Ferrigno","tags":["alternate-history","civil-war","death-and-dying","war"],"id":3375,"author_id":"Robert+Ferrigno"},{"text":"To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.","author":"Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy","tags":["civil-war","equality"],"id":4989,"author_id":"Eugen+Rosenstock-Huessy"},{"text":"To make matters worse, Jackson placed great value on regurgitating every last detail of the assigned texts. When, in response to Jackson's question 'What are the three simple machines?' a cadet answered, 'The inclined plane, the lever, and the wheel,' Jackson replied, 'No, sir. The lever, the wheel, and the inclined plane.","author":"S.C. Gwynne","tags":["civil-war","history","humor"],"id":11185,"author_id":"S.C.+Gwynne"},{"text":"Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.","author":"Reading Today Online","tags":["bigotry","civil-war","discrimination","history","middle-grade","slavery","tolerance"],"id":19645,"author_id":"Reading+Today+Online"},{"text":"The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.","author":"Kelsey Brickl","tags":["battle","battle-of-shiloh","battlefield","civil-war","hell","kentucky","shiloh","spit","tennessee"],"id":23064,"author_id":"Kelsey+Brickl"},{"text":"JAKE BAKER JOINING THE UNION ARMY IN NEW ORLEANS'I'd prefer to be back in Texas, taking aim at the Rebs..., but I just can't do that,' said Jake. ...'So, I'll just do what I can do, I guess.'I suspect that goes for all of us,' said the Colonel. 'Maybe we should make that the unit's motto. 'The First Texas Cavalry of the United States of America: We'll just do what we can do, we guess.' It does have a ring to it, but I expect that we need somethin' a bit more inspirational and less true.","author":"Charles Phillips","tags":["civil-war","historical-fiction","war-fiction"],"id":26808,"author_id":"Charles+Phillips"},{"text":"While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.","author":"Trevor P. Wardlaw","tags":["civil-war","history","overseer","slave"],"id":27363,"author_id":"Trevor+P.+Wardlaw"},{"text":"He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.","author":"Nancy B. Brewer","tags":["civil-war","historical-ficiton","history","romance-novel","southern"],"id":28236,"author_id":"Nancy+B.+Brewer"},{"text":"I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.","author":"Jabber Douaihy","tags":["civil-war","lebanon","love","war"],"id":30027,"author_id":"Jabber+Douaihy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":110,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}