#pg. 156

Although all of the officers signed to resolve, he [General Lee], along with von Steuben, Duportail, Wayne, Paterson, and Lafayette, disagreed with the number of troops being used as inadequate and suggested that number be raised to at least 2,000, and preferably 2,500 or more. He was dissatisfied that he and the other officers who disapproved of the final plan, were being ignored, and addressed the issue in a letter to Washington.

"Now you can look down at your hand any time. Even if I'm not there, you'll know." His warm fingers squeeze mine and our gazes find each other. "Know what?" "That you have my heart. That I love you."

The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.