"He must be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 men and bankrupts the treasury.” -General Sherman
That Devil Forrest
The Union Forever!
“The crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.” -John Brown
Oh Captain! My Captain!
"The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, while follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring."
Rage, Achilles
This year I decided to fill in a gaping gap in my liberal arts knowledge of antiquity by committing to sitting down and reading one of the most influential works in the Western cannon – Homer’s Iliad. The Iliad is a collection of books in the style of a poem; it contains 24 books arranged... Continue Reading →
The Coming of the Lord: Civil War Podcast #3
"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads." -Shelby Foote
His Terrible Swift Sword: Civil War Podcast #2
"It was imperative to strike before we were struck by this overwhelming force in a hand-to-hand fight, which we could not probably have withstood or survived. At that crisis, I ordered the bayonet. The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man; and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away."
To Arms! Civil War Podcast #1
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."
2023 Year Review
Michael, Cal and David discuss the books read over 2023.
You Cannot Get Away
"Boys, I may lead you into hell, but I'll get you out if you do exactly as I tell you to do. I'll never send you into a battle, I'll lead you. All I ask any man to do is follow me." -Leander McNelly
An Accidentally United Little Lump of Something
“The question without answering which one cannot live: Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?”
Brains and Brawn 