Hand in hand Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

“The troops also edged toward that timeless state common to veteran armies in which the men trusted no one less wretched than themselves. Still…

— Rick Atkinson

“Before leaving, Jackson assembled his brigade to bid them this farewell: “Officers and Soldiers of the First Brigade: I am not here to make…

— Charles River Editors

“Two months after marching through Boston, half the regiment was dead; at the dedication, William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe. Their…

— Robert Lowell

“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who…

— Audie Murphy

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for…

— Richard Aldington

“For this one night, I saw with my own eyes the balance, the madness, the respect, the damage, the love, the intensity, and the…

— Rachel Stephens Showman, Those Ducks Look Aggressive

“I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy…

— Robert Hicks

“Quite a few soldiers . . . had ended up spending some time wrapped around each other, alone in the night. Most often, it…

— Robert Lee Wolfe

“I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly buried- in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“With grateful thanks to all of the men and women who protect and serve The United States of America, and to Operation Mend, who…

— Katy Regnery

“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found…

— Carey Wallace

“You think the only battles fought are done so with rifles, and the only wounds that kill draw blood. You think courage is loud,…

— Lorraine Heath