Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal