all-testing

Updated: August 17, 2026

No one who has not been in the heart of things with fighting fleets or armies can realize what it means to all ranks when there is, or even is supposed to be, "something wrong" with the living pivot on which the whole force turns. And only those who have been behind the scenes of war's all-testing drama can understand what it means for even an imagined "failure" to "come back."

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray