How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
But this time what I saw was something that looked like piles of black straws heaped up every few yards and we ran into the cut and we could see where they had dug the ties up and piled them and set them on fire. (3.2.9)
The railroad was, for the boys, a symbol of progress, modernity, and wonder. Bayard had already seen the working railroad at his last visit to his cousins' house, and Ringo couldn't wait to see it for himself. That makes it all the sadder that when they get there it's torn to bits.
Quote #8
But Gavin was killed at Shiloh and so they didn't marry. (3.2.14)
It's a short sentence, but it really packs a punch. Dru's fiancé, the good-looking Gavin, died fighting for the Confederacy at the Battle of Shiloh, along with about 23,000 others from both sides, in one of the bloodiest battles of American history.
Quote #9
"Phut," Ringo said, "these folks is too busy keeping us conquered to recognise no little ten or twelve head of stock." (4.1.27)
As anyone who watches US foreign policy knows, "winning" the war is only half the, ahem, battle. It's keeping it won that's the real trouble, as Ringo points out. The Union might have declared victory over the Confederate secessionists, but they still have many years of work ahead of them "keeping them conquered."