[A Jovial Cad]

Good morning snippy, SAM, and all the folks in the Foxhole.

Another excellent article (as usual); and one that causes a person to think long and hard about the conflict that George Will once called "the monsoon of our history."
Indeed, it was. Reading it through twice a quote kept occurring to me from one of the major participants at Antietam/Sharpsburg (though he was speaking on the field of another battle in that dreadful war):

"It is good that war is so terrible; we should grow too fond of it..."
--Robert E. Lee (speaking at Fredericksburg, I believe)

Looking forward to the second installment of this story!
-AJC

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks AJC. We toured the battlefield today, a beautiful and solemn place.