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How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?
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Michael Shaara |
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Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his voice beginning to to crack and give, and all around him his men were roaring animal screams, and he saw the whole Regiment rising and pouring over the wall and beginning to bound down through th..
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war
history
inspirational
gallantry
civil-war
civil-war-fiction
warrior
drama
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Michael Shaara |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It became a publishing sensation. Lincoln was later wryly to remark to her: 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.' The South reacted with fury to her attack on slavery.
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Michael Shaara |
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I'll wave no more flags for home. No tears for Mother. Nobody ever died for apple pie.
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Michael Shaara |
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It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown up with. The war had come as a nightmare in which you chose your nightmare side. Once chosen, you put your head down and went on to win.
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Michael Shaara |
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Amazing. Chamberlain let his eyes close down to the slits, retreating within himself. He had learned that you could sleep on your feet on the long marches. You set your feet to going and after a while they went by themselves and you sort of turned your attention away and your feet went on walking painlessly, almost without feeling, and gradually you closed down your eyes so that all you could see were the heels of the man in front of you, o..
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Michael Shaara |
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In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers.
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Michael Shaara |
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If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.
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Michael Shaara |
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It wasn't the dying. He had seen men die all his life, and death was the luck of the chance, the price you eventually paid. What was worse was the stupidity. The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it. It was a deadly thing to be thinking on. Job to be done here. And all of it turns on faith.
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Michael Shaara |
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And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.
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Michael Shaara |
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thought, Lee wants a frontal assault. I guess he'll have one. He turned to the messenger.
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Michael Shaara |
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The faith itself was simple: he believed in the dignity of man. His ancestors were Huguenots, refugees of a chained and bloody Europe. He had learned their stories in the cradle. He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of roya..
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Michael Shaara |
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He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become. This was the first place on earth where the man mattered more than the state. True freedom had begun here and it would spread eventually o..
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Michael Shaara |
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If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as a foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.
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Michael Shaara |
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He was out in the open, waving his hat, pointing to a grove of trees. A moment later Buford looked that way and the horse was bare-backed. He did not believe it. He broke off and rode to see. Reynolds lay in the dirt road, the aides bending over him. When Buford got there the thick stain had already puddled the dirt beneath his head. His eyes were open, half asleep, his face pleasant and composed, a soft smile. Buford knelt. He was dead. An..
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Michael Shaara |
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He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become.
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Michael Shaara |
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A little eccentricity is a help to a general. It helps with the newspapers. The women love it too. Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. That's why the fall in love with preachers.
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religion
humor
love
southern-women
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Michael Shaara |
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He shuddered. He remembered that day in church when he prayed from the soul and listened and knew in that moment that there was no one there,
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Michael Shaara |
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General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.
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Michael Shaara |
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Then after that I asked this fella what rights he had that we were offendin', and he said, well, he didn't know, but he must have some rights he didn't know nothin' about.
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Michael Shaara |
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It is unbecoming to a soldier, all this book-learning."
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Michael Shaara |
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Honor without intelligence is a disaster. Honor could lose the war.
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Michael Shaara |
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It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time."
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Michael Shaara |
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He had forgotten the Cause. When the guns began firing he had forgotten it completely.
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Michael Shaara |