We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.