Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson, also known as Knud Evangerwas a Norwegian-American attorney and politician active in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislatures, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota, and he served as the 12th Governor of Minnesota. He was the first Scandinavian-born American to be elected to the Senate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 February 1843
CountryUnited States of America
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
I know that money speaks more loudly than need.
Man is remembered by his deeds.
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.