Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

“But he had heavy hands with thick muscular fingers and black fingernails and th…”

“Longstreet took a deep breath. In the winter the fever had come to Richmond. In…”

“The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birt…”

“The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother…”