There is no hesitation to my reply when I have been asked to name some of the most haunted places in America...without a doubt, I can list Gettysburg and several other places which are related to the Civil War. More Americans died in that conflict than in our other wars behind. Such an event has undoubtedly left its mark behind... - From The Haunting of America

If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the gladdest days in the darkest nights...always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again... - a letter to Sarah Ballou from her husband, Major Sullivan Ballou of the 2nd Rhode Island, in July 1861. He was killed one week later at the first battle of Bull Run

When I thin of the death of our president, it seems as if it was my own flesh and blood called away - a Union soldier's wife

"Who is dead in the White House" I asked one of the soldiers. "The President," was the answer, "he was killed by an assassin." - Abraham Lincoln recalling a dream that he remembered a few days before he was killed

The dead were all around us; their eyeless skulls seemed to stare steadily at us...the trees swayed and sighed gently in the soft wind. As we sat smoking, an infantry soldier...suddenly rolled a skull on the ground before us and said in a deep low voice: 'That is what you are all coming to, and some of you will start toward it tomorrow.' - A Union soldier recalling a night camped on the old Chancellorsville battlefield