They Met at Shiloh Quotes

“The East Mississippi Greys, men who volunteered from Scott County, Mississippi, a year ago, formed Company C of the 6th Regiment, joining companies with such names as “Rankin Rough & Readies,” “Quitman Southrons,” and “The Rockport Steel Blades.”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“How easy it is to think one is safe when one is winning and all is right with the world and God. But once troubles happen and plans go awry, was it God’s lack of support or active opposition? It made little sense to think that way,”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“That the Almighty could be on the side of tyranny and not on freedom is something we dare not think about,”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“The Black Republicans, a derisive term given to the wing of the fledgling Republican Party, whose sole purpose was to emancipate every slave in the South, were in power for one purpose only, and they were put in power without a single Southern vote.”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“in their eagerness to prove themselves, had to take a moment to view the scene and wonder whether valor required a foolhardy charge into destruction.”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“Reveille sounded, followed by a postlude chorus of hacking and coughing as thousands of men woke up and began the daily routine. The famous army cough was the true sound of the start of the army day.”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“Feeling confident that only a few volleys would be needed, the Federals stood confidently stolid.”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“breakout of Fort Donelson, which fails; General Nathan B. Forrest (CS) marches out of Fort Donelson under cover of night rather than surrender with his brigade of cavalry. February 16, 1862: General”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“carry on as he’d just seen the paymaster means the tension gets rougher. You know this whole thing is bent on surprise.” Polk waved his hand to indicate the men marching forward. “Well, if we know that they know we are here, then all we have”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“a willingness to throw in their lot with Jefferson Davis’s cause. Texans, as a whole, owned few slaves, and its cotton economy was still young compared to the Virginian tobacco or Georgian”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh

“Methodist”
― Phillip Bryant, They Met at Shiloh