All Hell Can’t Stop Them Quotes

“When the battle did not go according to his plan, Grant adapted and modified that plan. A stumble in one sector met with success elsewhere, and Grant capitalized upon that success. This flexibility should not be dismissed lightly. Far too many commanders, when confronted by an unexpected reverse, responded with passivity—Braxton Bragg, for example.”
― David A. Powell, All Hell Can’t Stop Them: The Battles for Chattanooga—Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, November 24-27, 1863

“Chattanooga made Grant in a way that Vicksburg’s triumph had not. Within slightly more than a month of being given authority over the entire Western Theater, Grant erased the defeat of Chickamauga, saved the Army of the Cumberland, and routed Bragg.”
― David A. Powell, All Hell Can’t Stop Them: The Battles for Chattanooga—Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, November 24-27, 1863

“Ultimately, the South cannibalized turpentine and brandy stills, sending purchasing agents amid great secrecy to seize or buy those stills wherever they found them. “Thus,” Broun admitted, “all the caps issued from the arsenal … during the last twelve months of the war manufactured from the copper stills of North Carolina.”
― David A. Powell, All Hell Can’t Stop Them: The Battles for Chattanooga—Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, November 24-27, 1863