Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come..

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster..

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence..

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenl….

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida….

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America..

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that y….

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interes….

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to….

The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their ow….

What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abra….

What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... ….

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, ….

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States..

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow ….

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on..

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life..

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves..

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a ….

A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion eve….

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be ….