As we passed brownstone cooperatives, restaurants, dance theaters, and the sporadic Irish bar, Owen told me another anecdote about General Longstreet and Ulysses S. Grant. I could see that for him, reading the Civil War had brought to life the act of making moral and ethical decisions, and this awareness of what awaited his own conscience, his battle wounds, his war between brothers, would be made clear to me in a very short time.
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