...most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.24 While citizen-soldiers...

...memory as it reached a kind of glorious repose in the late Gilded Age: I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he does not see the use.74 In this church of soldiers' fraternalism, the only enemies left, by and large,...

...of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is [that] the faith is true and...little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he had no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." Anathema to James's politics and ethics,...

...but as the font of human virtue. And war was the ultimate form of strife: I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he had no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. With all faiths besieged in a Darwinian...

...of white heroism, thus strengthening Blight's critique. Hohnes writes, "There is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and...little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he does not see the use." Qtd. in Blight. Race and Reunion, 21o. EPILOGUE I Ernest Lee Tuveson notes that...

...adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, iri a cause which he little understands, in a plan of...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. To change our subject somewhat, it can be argued that the Civil War is what gave the cutting edge...

...which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause of which he little understands, in a plan of campaign...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."26 Here is one answer to the silent revolutions of opinion that emptied the churches in the nineteenth...

...without ideals the essence of which is that they can never be achieved? I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic...

...individuals model themselves on the martial vision of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who ardently believed "that faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."33 Soon after the Confederate surrender, Powell returned to a teaching position at Illinois State...

..."The faith is true and adorable," he wrote in "A Soldier's Faith," delivered on Memorial Day in 1895, "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." Small comfort the words must have been to the widows and orphans in attendance. But Holmes was...