"If one Southern man could deliver the fire of five or ten Unionists, the odds against which Confederate armies had to fight in every engagement might all at once be set at naught" (Chapter 1, pg. 10.)

"'My friends and I - everyone who belongs to America Will break - come from a hundred and fifty years in your future.' He folded his arms across his broad chest and waited to see what Lee would make of that" (Chapter 3, pg. 81.)

"They kept returning Manassas, in the Seven Days' Campaign. They kept returning to the fray, and, like the mythical Hydra, seemed stronger every time they were cast to the ground. They were as determined in their insistence that the South return to the Union as the Confederate States were in their desire to depart from it" (Chapter 6, pg. 141-142.)

"He was convinced, however, that the Army of Northern Virginia...