I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

I'm afraid I'm elected.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.