Plenty of generals are good fighters, but our leaders measure and weigh the generals who are coming against them, look right inside of them, and read their minds better than those generals can read them themselves." "I believe you're right, George.

And since Burnside is not crossing to-night, he can't attack in the morning." "Of course not.

Lee and Jackson knew all the time that he'd waste a day.

They knew it by the way he delayed at Antietam, and they've been reading his mind all the time he's been sitting here on the banks of the Rappahannock.

They knew just where he'd attack, just when, too, and they'll have everything ready at the right point and at the right time." "Of course they will." They were but boys, and the great tactics and brilliant victories of Lee and Jackson had overwhelmed the imaginations of both.