An enlisted man is not held fit for any higher position; if that was not sufficient to bar me, the fact that I had fought for the South would." "You were in the Confederate army?
You must have been very young." "Oh, no; little more than a boy, of course, but so were the majority of my comrades.

I was in my senior college year when the war broke out.
But, Miss McDonald, this will never do! See how light it is growing.
There, they have begun firing already.

We must get back out of sight behind the sand-dunes.".