Early Youth Is A Baffling Time

Nathan Bedford Forrest ... Used His Horsemen As A Modern General Would Use Motorized Infantry. He Liked Horses Because He Liked Fast Movement, And His Mounted Men Could Get From Here To There Much Faster Than Any Infantry Could; But When They Reached The Field They Usually Tied Their Horses To Trees And Fought On Foot, And They Were As Good As The Very Best Infantry. Not For Nothing Did Forrest Say The Essence Of Strategy Was To Git Thar Fust With The Most Men.

And There Is The Headlight, Shining Far Down The Track, Glinting Off The Steel Rails That, Like All Parallel Lines, Will Meet In Infinity, Which Is After All Where This Train Is Going.

What Began As A Bitter Dispute Over Union And States' Rights, Ended As A Struggle Over The Meaning Of Freedom In America. At Gettysburg In 1863, Abraham Lincoln Said Perhaps More Than He Knew. The War Was About A New Birth Of Freedom.

A Certain Combination Of Incompetence And Indifference Can Cause Almost As Much Suffering As The Most Acute Malevolence.

Shiloh Had As Many Casualties As Waterloo, And Yet There Were Another 20 Waterloos To Come.