Shiloh Quotes

“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, Shiloh

“It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox”
― Shelby Foote, Shiloh

“They will tell you Shiloh was no cavalry battle; the field was too cut-up with ravines and choked with timber for the usual mounted work. However, none of Forrest's men realized this at the time and we had our moments”
― Shelby Foote, Shiloh

“If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live.”
― Sherry Soule, Beautifully Broken

“But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at”
― Shelby Foote, Shiloh

“You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot”
― Shelby Foote, Shiloh

“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story