We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o'clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.

These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. - Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at th…

You use the phrase 'brutal Rebels.' Don't be cheated in that way. There are enough 'brutal Rebels' no doubt, but we have brutal officers and men too. I have ha…

I still feel just as I told you, that I shall come safely out of this war. I felt so the other day when danger was near. I certainly enjoyed the excitement of …

A church full of singing, out of tune Everyone's gone to the moon

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary soc…

The sevenfold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black.