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.

The devil's name is dullness.

No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.