In the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing that I do not doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blind, accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.

Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes,

20th Massachusetts Volunteers