He was deep in Waterloo and Dick heard their comments.
"You wait till the big writers begin to tell about Chickamauga and Gettysburg and Shiloh," said one.

"They'll class with Waterloo or ahead of it, and the French and English never fought any such campaign as that when Grant came down through the Wilderness.

What's that about the French riding into the sunken road?
I'm willin' to bet it was nothing but a skirmish beside Pickett's charge at Gettysburg." "And both failed," said Warner.

"There are always brave men on every side in any war.

I don't know whether Napoleon was right or wrong-- I suppose he was wrong at that time--but it always makes me feel sad to read of Waterloo." "Just as a lot of our own people were grieved at the death of Stonewall Jackson, although next to Lee he was our most dangerous foe," said Pennington.
The reader resumed, and, although he was interrupted from time to time by question or comment, his monotone was pleasant and soothing, and Dick fell asleep.