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Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

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

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

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

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

We lived in Indian summer and mistook it for spring.

Early youth is a baffling time.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

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