Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story
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Quotes by Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story
"The war dragged on, as wars tend to do."
"Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side."
"She was an afterthought, little Martha. She was treated the way many families treated pet dogs - she had to be fed and cleaned every now and then, but she was left to her own devices for the most part."
"It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous."
"The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh."