"Lang kept at it until everyone had had a turn shooting an AK-47. Then he said, "This weapon can do one other thing I …"

"“You wouldn’t bring me fifty dollars. You’re too damn old and too damn uppity.” “I can’t help being old, and I am pro…"

"A gun cracked, quite close to the tent. Soldier's instinct pulled Lee's head up. Then he smiled and laughed to himsel…"

"Walter Taylor asked, "Mr. Rhoodie, what do you call this rifle of yours? Is it a Rhoodie, too? Most inventors name th…"

"You kill everybody who doesn’t want to see reason, people will get mighty thin on the ground mighty fast."

"War was rapidly doing what war did—making ugly everything it touched."

"“What’s the war news?” “They’re killing people,” Sam said, and let it go at that."

"Keeping the Army of Northern Virginia fed and clothed was a never-ending struggle. His men were making their own shoe…"

"Bureau of Ordnance, Richmond January 17, 1864 General Lee: I have the honor to present to you with this letter Mr. An…"

""It is an evil, sir, an unmitigated evil," Lincoln said. "I shall never forget the group of chained Negroes I saw goi…"