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Any salary would seem like good money to someone who had never had a job.
“We are all growing old, Colonel. The important thing is to grow old doing the right thing.
People like to be inflamed, get their dander up, and the problem is, it’s too easy. It’s too easy to make a speech up in New York and scream about killing the rebels when you don’t have to look ’em in the eye.
We are all revolutionaries, he thought. If we understand that, we will have great strength, we will defend our homes, we will prevail.
“Sir,” he said, “it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.”
“If you believe something is truly important, you have an obligation to fight for it.
“Soldier,” he said calmly, “I have been inconvenienced, that’s all. It is a small price for the inconvenience we have given General Pope.”
“We will push them into the river, before the sun sets.”
“We all have our jobs to do. And our job now is to move this big damned army as fast as we can, and outsmart Robert E. Lee.”
“It is well this is so terrible,” he said. “We should grow too fond of it.”
“Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.”
“Oh for the presence and inspiration of Old Jack for just one hour!”
