“ When General Johnston had heard them out, he drew himself up in the saddle, leather creaking, and said quietly: Gentlemen, we shall attack at daylight tomorrow. Shelby Foote
“ They will tell you Shiloh was no cavalry battle; the field was too cut-up with ravines and choked with timber for the usual mounted work. However, none of Forrest's men realized this at the time and w… Shelby Foote
“ That was when General Johnston rode up. He came right past where I was standing, a fine big man on a bay stallion. He had on a broad-brim hat and a cape and thigh boots with gold spurs that twinkled l… Shelby Foote
“ He could do little. Brandy might help, he thought, but when he poured some into the hurt man’s mouth it ran back out again. Presently a colonel, Johnston’s chief of staff, came hurrying into the ravin… Shelby Foote
“ I could see their faces then, and the army became what it really was: forty thousand men—they were young men mostly, lots of them even younger than myself, and I was nineteen just two weeks before—out… Shelby Foote
“ The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh. Kelsey Brickl
