Civil War Quotes
The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.
How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.
No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.
The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.
Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.
I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.
It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse
(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)
Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association
An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist
A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice
Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian
Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.
I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val’s eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas’ unthinking remark.
Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy