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. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.
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? - Michael Shaara
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?
- Michael Shaara
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. - Michael Shaara
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
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 … - Michael Shaara
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 …
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. - Michael Shaara
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.
Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying? - Michael Shaara
Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
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… - Michael Shaara
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…
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. - Michael Shaara
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.
Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was … - Michael Shaara
Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was …
There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield. - Michael Shaara
There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
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