"A bit rhetorical, perhaps, but that can be attributed to your youth and the region from which you come." "It's a great pity, George, about my youth and the region from which I come.

If so many youths in blue didn't come from that same region the whole Mississippi Valley might now be in the hands of the Johnnies." "Didn't I tell you, Dick, not to argue with him ?" said Pennington.
"What's the use?
New England has the writers and when this war is ended victoriously they'll give the credit of all the fighting to New England.
And after a while, through the printed word, they'll make other people believe it, too." "Then you Nebraskans and Kentuckians should learn to read and write.
Why blame me ?" said Warner with dignity.
Colonel Winchester joined them at that moment, having returned from a brief council with Sheridan and his officers.

Dick, without a word, passed him a plate of hot ham and a tin cup of sizzling coffee.

The colonel, who looked worn to the bone but triumphant, ate and drank.
Then he settled himself into an easy place before one of the fires and said: "A messenger has gone to General Grant with the news of our victory, and it will certainly be a most welcome message.

The news will also be sent to the nearest telegraph station, and then it will travel on hundreds of wires to every part of the North, but while it's flashing through space we'll be riding forward to new battle." "I expected it, sir," said Dick.