Peter Cozzens Quote

The Army and Navy Journal labeled the latest raids simply one more chapter in the old volume, the result of alternately feeding and fighting the tribes. We go to them Janus-faced. One of our hands holds the rifle and the other the peace-pipe, and we blaze away with both instruments at the same time. The chief consequence is a great smoke—and there it ends.

Peter Cozzens

The Army and Navy Journal labeled the latest raids simply one more chapter in the old volume, the result of alternately feeding and fighting the tribes. We go to them Janus-faced. One of our hands holds the rifle and the other the peace-pipe, and we blaze away with both instruments at the same time. The chief consequence is a great smoke—and there it ends.

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About Peter Cozzens

Peter Cozzens (born 1957) is an American historian and retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer. He has written and/or edited over seventeen books on the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.