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An excellent summation of the campaign, with a good pace, use of quotations, and clear descriptions of the actions. Might be more favorite in the series at this juncture. DISCLAIMER: I am contributor to the Emerging Civil War series and their blog. |
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| A highly readable account that is well researched and mostly fair, if perhaps too hard on Benjamin and too nice to Davis, although on that count it is hardly laudatory. It is also an account of the breakdown of the Confederacy as many of its soldiers ...more | |
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| Misulia should write more books. This is very well written and researched. I do wish he discussed Fort Tyler in some detail, but this really cannot be beat. There are plenty of photographs too, many never before seen, and simple but effective maps. | |
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| The American Civi...: New Books | 401 | 475 | Jul 19, 2026 10:23PM |
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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“It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim.”
― Intruder in the Dust
― Intruder in the Dust
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Poetry is the mother tongue of the human race, as the garden is older than the ploughed field; painting, than writing; song, than declamation; parables, than logical deduction; barter, than commerce. A deeper sleep was the repose of our most distant ancestors, and their movement was a frenzied dance. Seven days they would sit in the silence of thought or wonder; -- and would open their mouths -- to winged sentences.”
― Writings on Philosophy and Language
― Writings on Philosophy and Language
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Just a place for people to talk about Military History from various periods of time, and Military History books they've read. ...more