People Make A Grievous Error Thinking That

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

As A Southerner I Would Have To Say That One Of The Main Importances Of The War Is That Southerners Have A Sense Of Defeat Which None Of The Rest Of The Country Has.

North Was Only A Direction Indicated By A Compass--if A Man Had One, That Is, For Otherwise There Was No North Or South Or East Or West; There Was Only The Brooding Desolation.

I Began The Way Nearly Everybody I Ever Heard Of - I Began Writing Poetry. And I Find That To Be Quite Usual With Writers, Their Trying Their Hand At Poetry.

But The Same Thing Was True In The Army. You Slept In A Barracks With All Kinds Of People Of Every Nationality, Every Trade, Every Character And Quality You Can Imagine, And That Was A Good Experience.