Fields of Honor Quotes

“His error was in going to Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s party. At Banks’s party they probably had a little too much liquor. Afterward Grant was riding very, very rapidly; his horse shied when it saw an omnibus driving along the city streets.”
― Edwin C. Bearss, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War

“Orion Howe, a 14-year-old from Waukegan.”
― Edwin C. Bearss, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War