He was a member of the Mississippi Senate, and he was probably the richest man in the State." "I think I have heard the name.

He is a Confederate colonel now, with Pemberton's army.

No doubt we'll have to fight him later on." "Meanwhile, we're using his house." "Fortune of war.

But all war is in a sense unfair, because it's usually a question of the greater force.

At any rate, Dick, we won't harm Colonel Woodville's home." "Yet in the end, sir, a lot of these great old country places will go, and what will take their place?
You and I, coming from a border state, know that the colored race is not made up of Uncle Toms." "Well, Dick, we haven't won yet, and until we do we won't bother ourselves about the aftermath of war.