I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.