Astride the blue-robed dead.
As Miss Barton was being assisted off the bridge by an officer, an exploding shell hissed between them, passing below their arms as they were upraised, carrying away both the skirts of his coat and her dress. A moment later, on his horse, the gallant officer was struck by a solid shot from the enemy; the horse bounded in the air and the officer fell to the ground dead, not thirty feet in the rear.
In her usual modest manner, in relating war incidents, she described the experience to a lady friend and said: “I never mended that dress. I wonder whether or not a soldier ever mends a bullet hole in his clothes.”
XIV
Military glory—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood, that serpent’s eye that charms to destroy.
Abraham Lincoln.
The friends of humanity will deprecate war, whenever it may appear. George Washington.
There is no need of bloodshed and war. Abraham Lincoln.
Wars are largely the result of unbridled passions.