Anh Nguyen’s Reviews > Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation > Status Update

“A great basin lay before us full of smoke and fire… swarming with riderless horses and fighting, fleeing, and pursuing men. The air was saturated with … fumes of battle and was ringing with the shouts … of the combatants. The wild cries of charging lines, the rattle of musketry, the booming of artillery, and the shrieks of the wounded were the orchestral accompaniments of a scene like hell itself.”

“taking sides, North or South, to fight against his own people or for them,” or “to fight against your State, where your kindred children were, or with them.”

“I am too big to cry and too badly hurt to laugh. I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing which I could have had in no other way… I now sink out of view.”