D. Scott Hartwig > Quotes

“Fred Foard, another soldier in the 20th, remembered seeing the chaplain of his regiment, “who was bounding over the tops of laurel bushes like a kangaroo.” Foard heard McRae bellow at him, “Parson—Parson—God Damn it, come back here; you have been praying all your life to get to heaven and now that you have a short cut you are running away from it.”
― D. Scott Hartwig, To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

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― D. Scott Hartwig, I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign