Quotes from What I Saw At Shiloh — Ambrose Bierce
1842–1910 United States
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
What I Saw At Shiloh (1881)
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
What I Saw At Shiloh (1881)
This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier.
What I Saw At Shiloh (1881)
One thing, however, I hope I may without offense affirm of these swamp-dwellers--they were pious. To what deity their veneration was given--whether, like the Egyptians, they worshiped the crocodile, or, like other Americans, adored themselves, I do not presume to guess.
What I Saw At Shiloh (1881)