Churchill on Civil War staff rides
You must see the ground; you must cover the distances in person; you must measure the rivers and see what the swamps were really like. –Winston Churchill, "Old Battlefields of Virginia," Daily Telegraph, December 16, 1929, about walking the sites around Richmond and Fredericksburg, as quoted on page 121 of Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America.
You must see the ground; you must cover the distances in person; you must measure the rivers and see what the swamps were really like.
You must see the ground; you must cover the distances in person; you must measure the rivers and see what the swamps were really like.
–Winston Churchill, "Old Battlefields of Virginia," Daily Telegraph, December 16, 1929, about walking the sites around Richmond and Fredericksburg, as quoted on page 121 of Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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