Battle above the Clouds Quotes

“Dowd reached this line shortly after the combined 27th/24th line crumbled, and though Walthall had ordered him “to hold my post till Hell froze over,” to Dowd it now looked like “the ice was about five feet over it.”
― David A. Powell, Battle above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863

“Though not widely understood at the time, this lack meant that the average soldier suffered from a deficiency of Vitamin A, which rendered men night-blind—a condition noted in some letters and diaries, though the writers had no explanation for the cause.”
― David A. Powell, Battle above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863