Cain at Gettysburg Quotes

“War was a sorrier business than storybooks told.”
― Ralph Peters, Cain at Gettysburg

“But a man lies to himself, and never more so than he does about a woman.”
― Ralph Peters, Cain at Gettysburg: A Novel

“Lee was tough as hickory, but the tree was old.”
― Ralph Peters, Cain at Gettysburg: A Novel

“Don’t go thinking I was one of these hellfire-and-brimstone fellers. No, sir. I put more stock in Jesus than Jeremiah. And I never tried to tell a man Jesus really turned that wine into water, not the other way around. Just tried to persuade him that getting hog-drunk and killing his own brother wasn’t Christian.”
― Ralph Peters, Cain at Gettysburg: A Novel

“I wish you to place your division across this road, and I wish you to get there,”
― Ralph Peters, Cain at Gettysburg: A Novel