Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.