Shelby Foote Quotes

On Paper, In The Colonel's Lamp-lit Office, When We Saw A Problem It Was Easy To Fix; All We Had To Do Was Direct That Corps Commanders Regulate Their Columns So As Not To Delay Each Other, Halting Until Crossroads Were Clear, Keeping Their Riles Well Closed, And So Forth. It Didn't Work That Way On The Ground, Which Was Neither Flat Nor Clean - Nor, As It Turned Out, Dry

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