warweariness

Updated: July 24, 2025

But the mere excellence of a vast fighting front means a certain loss of the nobler qualities in the home front, from which so many of the staunchest are withdrawn. And then warweariness breeds doubts, doubts breed fears, and fears breed the spirit of surrender. There seemed to be more Copperheads in the conglomerate opposition than Unionists ready to withstand them.

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