I've Never Shown Anybody A Draft Of

My Second Book, Follow Me Down Had Some Success, Got Good Critical Notices, Went Into A Second Printing And Things Like That, But Shiloh Was By Far The Most Successful Of Those First Five Novels.

Grant Was Something Rare In That Or Any War. He Could Learn From Experience.

Before The War It Was Always The United States *are*, After The War It Was The United States Is... It Made Us An Is.

I Don't Want Anything To Do With Anything Mechanical Between Me And The Paper, Including A Typewriter, And I Don't Even Want A Fountain Pen Between Me And The Paper.

I Took Five Years On The First Volume, Five Years On The Second Volume, And Ten Years On The Third Volume.