James M. McPherson Quote

As a Virginian, Scott deplored the cry of many Republican politicians and newspapers for an invasion to crush the rebels. Even if successful, he wrote, an invasion would produce fifteen devastated provinces [that is, the slave states] not to be brought into harmony with their conquerors, but to be held for generations, by heavy garrisons.

James M. McPherson

As a Virginian, Scott deplored the cry of many Republican politicians and newspapers for an invasion to crush the rebels. Even if successful, he wrote, an invasion would produce fifteen devastated provinces [that is, the slave states] not to be brought into harmony with their conquerors, but to be held for generations, by heavy garrisons.

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