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Shiloh Quotes

“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”

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Book:Hardtack: A Civil War Story

Source: Hardtack: A Civil War Story

“But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running, anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn't want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be”

Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox”

Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“They will tell you Shiloh was no cavalry battle; the field was too cut-up with ravines and choked with timber for the usual mounted work. However, none of Forrest's men realized this at the time and we had our moments”

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Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live.”

Shiloh Beautifully Broken Sherry Soule

Book:Beautifully Broken

Source: Beautifully Broken

“But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at”

Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot”

Civil War Shiloh

Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.”

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Author:Bruce Catton

“There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.”

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Author:David Ogden Stiers

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain’t bad for eleven.”

Thinking Eye Simple Dog Saved Eleven Shiloh

Book:Shiloh and related readings

Source: Shiloh and related readings

“Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.”

Men Care Shiloh

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.”

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Author:Edward Abbey

“Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.”

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Author:Chelsea Handler

“My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.”

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Author:Shelby Foote