They are volunteers: last of the great volunteer armies, for the draft is beginning that summer in the North. They have lost faith in their leaders b… - Michael Shaara

Oh, by the way, there's a story going around, do you know? They say that General Lee was asleep, and the army was marching by, and fifteen thousand men went by on tiptoe so as not to wake him.

He moved closer to the wall up there, past mounds of bodies, no line any more, just men moving forward at different speeds, stopping to fire, stopping to die, drifting back like leaves blown from the fire ahead.

It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time.