"It has not seemed the whole truth to me that the Confederate soldier
went into battle to vindicate a constitutional argument. He went to war
because he loved his people, because his country was invaded, because
his heart was throbbing for his hearthstone. Here was the land which
gave him birth; here was his childhood's home' here were the graves of
his dead; here was the church spire where he had learned it was not all
of life to live nor all of death to die. No hostile foot should ever
tread this consecrated ground except over his dead body."
~ Lieutenant General Stephen Dill Lee, from a speech at the annual reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans (UCV) held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1905. Lee was a native of South Carolina, born in Charleston and grew up in Abbeville.
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