"Don't you think we'll have some lively experiences trying to take it?
And wasn't there something real and vital about Bull Run and Shiloh and Perryville and Stone River and all the rest?
Don't you worry, George.
You're living in exciting times yourself." "That's so," said Warner calmly.

"I had forgotten it for the moment.
We've been readers of history and now we're makers of it.

It's funny--and maybe it isn't funny--but the makers of history often know little about what they're making.

The people who come along long afterward put them in their places and size up what they have done." "They can give all the reasons they please why I won this war," said Pennington, "but even history-makers are entitled to a rest.

Since there's no order to the contrary I mean to stretch out and go to sleep.
Dick, you and George can discuss your problems all night." But they went to sleep also..