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Shelby Foote Quote: “He could do little. Brandy might help, he thought, but when he poured some into the hurt man’s mouth it ran back out again. Presently a colonel, Johnston’s chief of staff, came hurrying into the ravine. But he could do nothing either. He knelt down facing the general. “Johnston, do you know me? Johnston, do you know me?” he kept asking, over and over, nudging the general’s shoulder as he spoke. But Johnston did not know him. Johnston was dead.”

51. “He could do little. Brandy might help, he thought, but when he poured some into the hurt man’s mouth it ran back out again. Presently a colonel, Johnston’s chief of staff, came hurrying into the ravine. But he could do nothing either. He knelt down facing the general. “Johnston, do you know me? Johnston, do you know me?” he kept asking, over and over, nudging the general’s shoulder as he spoke. But Johnston did not know him. Johnston was dead.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “They were Amy and Jeff Carruthers and they rode south out of Bristol, gravel chattering under the upswept fenders. After a while the man said suddenly, “Whats it like?” Amy glanced out at the fields. “Cotton. Everywhere nothing but cotton.”

52. “They were Amy and Jeff Carruthers and they rode south out of Bristol, gravel chattering under the upswept fenders. After a while the man said suddenly, “Whats it like?” Amy glanced out at the fields. “Cotton. Everywhere nothing but cotton.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “It’s not any fun in the dark,” he said, and she saw his eyes brimming with tears that glistened in the moonlight. She really felt sorry for him – even she. For what could be more pitiful than a voyeur in the dark?”

53. “It’s not any fun in the dark,” he said, and she saw his eyes brimming with tears that glistened in the moonlight. She really felt sorry for him – even she. For what could be more pitiful than a voyeur in the dark?”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “There is no chance for surprise,” he said, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders with that French way he had. “Theyll be intrenched to the eyes.”

54. “There is no chance for surprise,” he said, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders with that French way he had. “Theyll be intrenched to the eyes.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “So their relationship entered a new phase, characterized by enmity round the clock. True, they had fought all along – there had been the gladiatorial contests in which she would snatch up any handy weapon to even the odds. But that sort of combat was almost a sporting thing: it seemed the natural way to close their arguments, just as war is said to be an extension of politics, statecraft.”

55. “So their relationship entered a new phase, characterized by enmity round the clock. True, they had fought all along – there had been the gladiatorial contests in which she would snatch up any handy weapon to even the odds. But that sort of combat was almost a sporting thing: it seemed the natural way to close their arguments, just as war is said to be an extension of politics, statecraft.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “That was what bothered him most: the fact that she seemed to encourage his advances, and even granted him certain liberties, up to the point at which she turned on him with violence or laughter. He did not know which was worse, the chuckling or the blows; there was something terribly unmanly about being on the receiving end of either. But he looked forward to a time when he could repay her, could laugh at her or strike her as he saw fit. Thus marriage was already in his mind. Next.”

56. “That was what bothered him most: the fact that she seemed to encourage his advances, and even granted him certain liberties, up to the point at which she turned on him with violence or laughter. He did not know which was worse, the chuckling or the blows; there was something terribly unmanly about being on the receiving end of either. But he looked forward to a time when he could repay her, could laugh at her or strike her as he saw fit. Thus marriage was already in his mind. Next.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting – or running, anyhow – that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn’t want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be.”

57. “But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting – or running, anyhow – that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn’t want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “I never cared what kind of grade I got.”

58. “I never cared what kind of grade I got.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “These were the red hours of the conflict, hours no man who survived them would forget, even in his sleep, forever after. Fighting thus at arm’s length across that parapet, they were caught up in a waking nightmare, although they were mercifully spared the knowledge, at the outset, that it was to last for another sixteen unrelenting hours.”

59. “These were the red hours of the conflict, hours no man who survived them would forget, even in his sleep, forever after. Fighting thus at arm’s length across that parapet, they were caught up in a waking nightmare, although they were mercifully spared the knowledge, at the outset, that it was to last for another sixteen unrelenting hours.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “On paper, in the colonel’s lamp-lit office, when we saw a problem it was easy to fix; all we had to do was direct that corps commanders regulate their columns so as not to delay each other, halting until crossroads were clear, keeping their riles well closed, and so forth. It didn’t work that way on the ground, which was neither flat nor clean – nor, as it turned out, dry.”

60. “On paper, in the colonel’s lamp-lit office, when we saw a problem it was easy to fix; all we had to do was direct that corps commanders regulate their columns so as not to delay each other, halting until crossroads were clear, keeping their riles well closed, and so forth. It didn’t work that way on the ground, which was neither flat nor clean – nor, as it turned out, dry.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Then too, and this was as romantic as the others, Briartree was the only thing she had ever really owned. Everything else had more or less been lent her; so it seemed. But this was hers, earned by blood, the only good she ever got from being kin to her mother.”

61. “Then too, and this was as romantic as the others, Briartree was the only thing she had ever really owned. Everything else had more or less been lent her; so it seemed. But this was hers, earned by blood, the only good she ever got from being kin to her mother.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “If I tap that little bell,” he told a visitor, obviously relishing the notion, “I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.”

62. “If I tap that little bell,” he told a visitor, obviously relishing the notion, “I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.”

63. “I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Grant was as usual a good deal more intent on what he had in mind to do to the enemy than he was on what the enemy might or might not do to him.”

64. “Grant was as usual a good deal more intent on what he had in mind to do to the enemy than he was on what the enemy might or might not do to him.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Misfortune often develops secret foes,” Davis had said in a letter written earlier that week to Lee, “and oftener still makes men complain. It is comfortable to hold someone responsible for one’s discomfort.”

65. “Misfortune often develops secret foes,” Davis had said in a letter written earlier that week to Lee, “and oftener still makes men complain. It is comfortable to hold someone responsible for one’s discomfort.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “So I had decided to do it the easy way. Make them believe he was insane and the scales would fall from their eyes; they would ‘understand’; the fear, the hate would be gone, evaporated. “So thats it,” they would say; “he’s crazy. I knew it all along.” They might even begin to pity and sympathize. Good old Hollywood Christianity: God’s gift to the Defense.”

66. “So I had decided to do it the easy way. Make them believe he was insane and the scales would fall from their eyes; they would ‘understand’; the fear, the hate would be gone, evaporated. “So thats it,” they would say; “he’s crazy. I knew it all along.” They might even begin to pity and sympathize. Good old Hollywood Christianity: God’s gift to the Defense.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “In war, as in love – indeed, as in all such areas of so-called human endeavor – expectation tended to outrun execution, particularly when the latter was given a head start in the race, and nowhere did this apply more lamentably, at any rate from the Richmond point of view, than in the wake of Chickamauga, probably the greatest and certainly the bloodiest of all the battles won by the South in its fight for the independence it believed to be its birthright.”

67. “In war, as in love – indeed, as in all such areas of so-called human endeavor – expectation tended to outrun execution, particularly when the latter was given a head start in the race, and nowhere did this apply more lamentably, at any rate from the Richmond point of view, than in the wake of Chickamauga, probably the greatest and certainly the bloodiest of all the battles won by the South in its fight for the independence it believed to be its birthright.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Andrew Johnson. He had been lying rather low since the inauguration, yet he showed this evening that he had lost none of his talent for invective on short notice.”

68. “Andrew Johnson. He had been lying rather low since the inauguration, yet he showed this evening that he had lost none of his talent for invective on short notice.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Books about war were written to be read by God Almighty, because no one but God ever saw it that way.”

69. “Books about war were written to be read by God Almighty, because no one but God ever saw it that way.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Other trophies included a bundle of captured flags, which he sent to City Point that evening by a special messenger. Lincoln was delighted. “Here is something material,” he said as he unfurled the shot-torn rebel colors; “something I can see, feel, and understand. This means victory. This is victory.”

70. “Other trophies included a bundle of captured flags, which he sent to City Point that evening by a special messenger. Lincoln was delighted. “Here is something material,” he said as he unfurled the shot-torn rebel colors; “something I can see, feel, and understand. This means victory. This is victory.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “In defensive warfare he was perfect,” he wrote years later. “When the hunt was up, his combativeness was overruling.”

71. “In defensive warfare he was perfect,” he wrote years later. “When the hunt was up, his combativeness was overruling.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “What’s the harm in letting him have his fling?” he remarked of one of the worst of these; “If he did not pitch into me, he would into some poor fellow he might hurt.”

72. “What’s the harm in letting him have his fling?” he remarked of one of the worst of these; “If he did not pitch into me, he would into some poor fellow he might hurt.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Most of my inspiration, if that’s the word, came from books themselves.”

73. “Most of my inspiration, if that’s the word, came from books themselves.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “Davis told him, and went on to suggest that necessity be made a virtue and a source of strength.”

74. “Davis told him, and went on to suggest that necessity be made a virtue and a source of strength.”

— Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Quote: “I desire to so conduct the affairs of this Administration that if, at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be deep down inside of me.”

75. “I desire to so conduct the affairs of this Administration that if, at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be deep down inside of me.”

— Shelby Foote

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