Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

I'm afraid I'm elected.

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

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.