On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its ass.

The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice, not that the State and the South knew it, because the first seconds of fall always seem like soar.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of
specious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control of
the Southern states.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.