James M. McPherson: Living

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“Scorned and ridiculed by many critics during his presidency, Lincoln became a martyr and almost a saint after his death. His words and deeds lived after him, and will be revered as long as there is a United States. Indeed, it seems quite likely that without his determined leadership the United States would have ceased to be.”

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson. Abraham Lincoln, (2009) p. 65
2000s

Death

“If Lincoln had been a failure, he would have lived a longer life.”

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008) "Epilogue"
2000s

Life , Failure

“General Sherman, who had lived in the South, liked Southerners and did not at all sympathize with Northern racial views, yet became the most hated and feared destroyer of the South and its whole civilization. And I think he did so because he saw that as necessary to win the war. And I think Lincoln made some of his decisions—issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, for example, or turning Sherman loose — because he saw that as necessary to win the war.”

James M. McPherson

1990s, An Exchange With a Civil War Historian (June 1995)

Hate , War , Fear , Thinking

“More than any other American, Lincoln's name has gone into history. He gave all Americans, indeed all people everywhere, reason to remember that he had lived.”

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson. Abraham Lincoln, (2009) p. 65
2000s

People , History

“Powerful racial prejudices? That was not true of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, or Norwood P. Hallowell, or George T. Garrison, or many other abolitionists and sons of abolitionists who became officers in black regiments. Indeed, the contrary was true. They had spent much of their lives fighting the race prejudice endemic in American society, sometimes at the risk of their careers and even their lives. That is why they jumped at the chance of help launch an experiment with black soldiers which they hoped would help African Americans.”

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson. Drawn with the Sword : Reflections on the American Civil War] (1996), Princeton University: Oxford University Press. p. 91
1990s

Hope , Chance , Help , Fight