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“Grant needed a win, went for it, and got it. Lee needed a tie, went for the win, and lost.”
― The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
― The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
“Although Meade’s Army of the Potomac, under the personal direction of Grant, did suffer high casualties (41 percent) during its drive to the James River, it imposed even higher casualties on Lee’s army (46 percent). In”
― The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
― The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
“In the four years of its existence the Army of the Potomac had to atone for the errors of its generals on many a bitter field. This happened so many times—it was so normal, so much the regular order of things for this unlucky army—that it is hardly possible to take the blunders which marred its various battles and rank them in the order of magnitude of their calamitous stupidity.”
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
“Gridlock is the greatest friend a global warming skeptic has, because that’s all you really want,” Morano later acknowledged. “There’s no legislation we’re championing. We’re the negative force. We are just trying to stop stuff.”
― Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
― Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
“The barn by the Roulette house was jammed with wounded men. Screams, prayers, and curses made it a horrible place, with hundreds of anguished men packed together on the straw begging the surgeons to attend to them—surgeons bare-armed and fearsomely streaked and spattered with blood, piles of severed arms and legs lying by the slippery operating tables, the uproar of the battle beating in through the thin walls.”
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
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