There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield..

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it..

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad..

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing..

It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July..

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?.

Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was ….

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing ….

Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up ther….

I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail….

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?.