The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

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.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

Early youth is a baffling time