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...early age," Conan O'Brien told TIME, "and really fascinated by him. The main thing for me is that he was really funny. He chose the right words and kept things short, and those are two secrets to being timelessly funny. My favorite example was after the battle of Chickamauga. One of the Union generals had behaved badly and had become unnerved. Lincoln said the general was 'confused and stunned like a duck hit on the head.' You don't have to think about that in the context of 1863. It's just a funny image--full of anger...
...also fits Longstreet's personal experience well into the general context to the Civil War. By reminding readers that practically every one of Longstreet's closest circle of friends from West Point faced each other as commanders on both sides during the battle of Chickamauga, Wert aptly places Long-street in the culture that made the war so divisive...
...glories of patriotism have never quite got through to Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), who had a brother killed at Chickamauga. Little wonder that when the Union Army passes through Greenville, Ohio, pressing unwilling recruits into service, Drew hides under a table, then speeds off to Missouri...
...Perspectives. This final installment opens on the battle of Fredericksburg and closes with Lincoln's assassination. "It was the heaviest bullet, all things considered," writes Catton, "ever fired in America." Wherever possible Catton finds new perspectives along that blood-soaked two-year trail. Of Chickamauga, he writes: "The Union government sent 37,000 soldiers to Tennessee: the Confederacy sent Jefferson Davis. The contrast does not reflect different ideas about what was needed: it simply measures the extent of the resources at hand. Each government did the most it could...
...privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox-at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the Wilderness-they recorded the bloody course of the conflict with a vitality that has earned them a unique and permanent place in the annals of the press...