The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

by Michael Shaara

Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield.”

If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as a foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

But the thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a peawit.