Wildflowers and Seedcorn

“There’s a delicate balance to be struck between age and wisdom. If we’re to win this war, we need young men to set the pace and old men to point them in the right direction. It’s something similar to a woodpecker. He can peck all day without a lick of progress if no one bothers to tell him that he’s banging his head on a stovepipe.”

Wildflowers and Seedcorn recounts the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater from the perspective of a wealthy family from Fort Smith, offering a staggering reminder that war is a young man’s game.