Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
Shelby FooteTags: experience learning mistakes american-civil-war american-civil-war-biography
We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.
Shelby FooteTags: independence peer-pressure
On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.
Shelby FooteTags: encouragement leadership american-civil-war dignity robert-e-lee confederate-states-of-america american-civil-war-biography confederate-army
A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.
Shelby FooteTags: compassion humility leadership abraham-lincoln american-civil-war fallibility abraham-lincoln-quotes
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
Shelby FooteTags: mistakes self-reflection
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
Shelby FooteTags: writing-life
Isn't it odd, the attractiveness of type and paper and ink, bodying thoughts and descriptions? Isn't it odd how much the sight can teach us about writing? Commas really look like commas in print.
Shelby FooteI can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.
Shelby FooteTags: research
Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer said “went far toward confirming one’s belief in the wealth and flexibility of the English language as a medium of personal dispute.
Shelby FooteTags: american-civil-war army-of-the-potomac civil-war-eastern-theater union-army
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