Books: Why Britain Lost

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"If I cannot write grammatically," says Martin proudly, "I can think, talk and feel like other men. I never learned the rules of punctuation any farther than just to assist in fixing a comma to the British depredations in the state of New York; a semicolon in New Jersey; a colon in Pennsylvania, and a final period in Virginia;—a note of interrogation, why we were made to suffer so much in so good and just a cause; and a note of admiration to all the world, that an army voluntarily engaged to serve their country, when starved and naked and suffering everything short of death (and thousands even that), should be able to persevere through an eight years war and come off conquerers at last!"