A Fact Is Not A Truth Until

Writing Is Very Hard Work And Knowing What You're Doing The Whole Time.

I've Never Shown Anybody A Draft Of Anything.

People Want To Know Why The South Is So Interested In The Civil War. I Had Maybe, It's A Rough Guess, About Fifty Fistfights In My Life. Out Of Those Fifty Fistfights, The Ones That I Had The Most Vivid Memory Of Were The Ones I Lost. I Think That's One Reason Why The South Remembers The War More Than The North Does.

When You Grow Up In A Totally Segregated Society, Where Everybody Around You Believes That Segregation Is Proper, You Have A Hard Time. You Can't Believe How Much It's A Part Of Your Thinking.

Grant Was Something Rare In That Or Any War. He Could Learn From Experience.