"Our dearest were in it."
"Well, we got whipped, Wesley, I acknowledge it; but we deserved to win, if ever bravery deserved it."
"The South was brave, nobody contests that; but ''t is not enough to be brave'—
"'The angry valor dashed
On the awful shield of God,'
as one of our poets says."
"Blast one of your poets! Our people were right, too."
"Come, now, Flagg, when you talk about your people, you ought to mean
Northerners, for you were born in the North."
"That was just the kind of luck that has followed me all my life. My body belongs to Bangor, Maine, and my soul to Charleston, South Carolina."
"You've got a problem there that ought to bother you."
"It does," said the colonel, with a laugh.