Knute Nelson Quotes

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.