Quotes from Robert Gould Shaw

is inhabited by a Mrs. Buckle,four children,a fat black woman, and myself and a man.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.