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“I thank you pa and ma, and I will thank you all the days of my life that you let me come to him. I feel sure that you have saved his life and my happiness…”
“Desertin’ ain’t a purty word to you, is it? Well, I done it – I just don’t know why… All at oncet I knowed I couldn’t stand it no longer, and I jest up and left.”
“I think it wrong that I write to you with hope and optimism for our future; I think I must prepare you for the possibility – no, the probability of heartbreak.”
After Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty, he said, “Never have I loved him so much.”
“I wanted to see Mr. Lincoln so much, Shad. Pa had said that maybe after the war was over I could go to Washington, maybe I could shake his hand.”
“It’s been long sence you hev told me any of the old lessons Shad used to larn you, Jeth.”
“May God bless you for the earnestness with which you have tried to seek out what is right; may He guide both of us in that search during the days ahead of us.”
“Jeth, it’s the President – they’ve killed the President!”
“Wel I found Bill and we set together with thousands of sad men all around us and things was cold and foul everywhere but we was brothers agin and we talked like brothers ought to talk.”
Jenny and Shad plan for him to live with them after the war.