Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

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.

When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.

I'm afraid I'm elected.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.