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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Characteristics of the armies (search)
ading physician were of his opinion, and the solemn judgment of three such distinguished men was, in my mind, all but conclusive. Yet, alas! the village knowledge of war proved as illusive as that of Betsey Ward, when her old man, the immortal A. Ward, was prancing up and down the room, musket in hand, drilling. The cellar-door being open, a sudden right — about wheel threw him in, nearly breaking his neck. Are you hurt, deary? exclaimed Mrs. A. W., running to the hole, and putting her question in the direction of the groans below. Go away! shouted Ward; what do you know about war? Well, when the war was over our little circle of prophets, or those of them who lived through it, knew more about it than they did when it commenced. They found that mountains were no barrier to cannon, and that terrible armies with banners swept past them back and forth with the apparent ease that a pendulum swings in its course. From near the beginning the Southern soldiers were with us-squad