"'I won't be getting into any trouble, Ma,' he said, wrapping some bread and cold potatoes and half a roast chicken in some tow cotton. 'Plus they'll be paying me. I hear they give eleven dollars a month."' Chapter 1, p. 4

"Well here it is - my chance to be a man. A boy wouldn't go off to earn eleven dollars a month and wear a uniform. Only a man. So I'm going to be a man and do what a man can do." Chapter 1, p. 5

"'I know it ain't right,' she wrote in one letter, 'but you must think on coming home now. Just leave the army and walk home before they get you in a battle and shoot you apart..."' Chapter 2, p. 11

"Go it boys, get the Rebels!" Chapter 2, p. 13

"'Hell, it'll probably be over before we get to Washington,' Swenson said...