I've concluded that good clothes give a certain amount of moral courage, and if you get killed you make a much more decent body." "But Arthur St.Clair, of Charleston, sir, has no intention of getting killed," said Happy Tom Langdon, who was also resting upon the earth.
"He means after this war is over to go back to his native city, buy the most magnificent uniforms that were ever made, and tell the girls how Lee and Jackson turned to him for advice at the crisis of every great battle." "We surely needed wisdom and everything else we could get at Antietam--leadership, tenacity and the willingness to die," said Dalton, the sober young Virginia Presbyterian.

"Boys, we were in the deepest of holes there, and we had to lift ourselves out almost by our own boot straps." Harry's face clouded.

The field of Antietam often returned to him, almost as real and vivid as on that terrible day, when the dead lay heaped in masses around the Dunkard church and the Southern army called forth every ounce of courage and endurance for its very salvation.
"Antietam is a month away," he said, "and I still shudder at the name.
We didn't think McClellan would come up and attack Lee while Jackson was away at Harper's Ferry, but he did.

How did it happen?
How did he know that our army was divided ?" "I've heard a strange story," said Dalton.

"It's come through some Union prisoners we've taken.