" These well-to-do were many of the same men who so enthusiastically supported secession at the outset—the ones who so confidently blustered that independence would be so quick and easy that they would eat all the flesh of those killed in any war, and drink all the blood spilled. Now in mid-1864 still “those that brought the war on is at home & our boys are fighting for there property "

― , Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America