Alan J. Pitts
Citing sources....
Thu Apr 12 11:13:23 2001


Usually Time-Life provides excellent documentation for images that appear in their books. Unfortunately that's not the case for text. Of course the same's true for Shelby Foote's 'Narrative': if you happen to be interested in some statement appearing in one of his volumes, you're out of look as far as knowing its origin. When I was much younger I was particularly fond of the concluding lines in Foote's narrative of the Battle of Corinth, Rosecrans' quote of a wounded Arkansas lieutenant saying we gave you the best we had on the ranch. Took me years to find that....