"‘If we had such good good generals and all of that, how come we got whupped, Hallie?’ / ‘North had more guns. Go to sleep, Dove.’ / But in the big blue middle of the night she felt a nudge. / ‘Why, in that case it weren't a question or right makin' might after all. It was more a matter of might makin' right.’ / ‘Might makes might,’ she murmured sleepily. / ‘Yes, but how I look at it,’ he made one more ageless decision, ‘the reason the North got most guns was because they had the right to start. What I fail to understand is how come it taken them four years to whup a bunch with such a sorry cause as ourn.’"