The Confederate Constitution Was Almost

A Certain Combination Of Incompetence And Indifference Can Cause Almost As Much Suffering As The Most Acute Malevolence.

And There Is The Headlight, Shining Far Down The Track, Glinting Off The Steel Rails That, Like All Parallel Lines, Will Meet In Infinity, Which Is After All Where This Train Is Going.

The Civil War Was Fought In 10,000 Places, From Valverde, New Mexico, And Tullahoma, Tennessee, To St. Albans, Vermont, And Fernandina On The Florida Coast. More Than 3 Million Americans Fought In It, And Over 600,000 Men, 2 Percent Of The Population, Died In It.

Men See Things Late, And It May Be That At Times An Evil Fate Drives Them On.

Sooner Or Later You Must Move Down An Unknown Road That Leads Beyond The Range Of The Imagination, And The Only Certainty Is That The Trip Has To Be Made