Hell or Richmond Quotes

“These books are so splendid, they frustrate readers conditioned to lesser historical fiction in which every Confederate officer was young, dashing, and raised with a free-black best friend on a progressive plantation, or that features a feisty, clandestinely educated, proto-liberated woman rebelling valiantly against the constricting patriarchal societies of bygone centuries (all the while wearing enthralling dresses). The first sort of novel romanticizes the past, the second euthanizes it. The”
― Ralph Peters, Hell or Richmond: A Novel

“He had learned long ago that dying was not hard. The harder course was to defy the odds, to endure life’s torments stoically.”
― Ralph Peters, Hell or Richmond: A Novel