We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

War is at best barbarism.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.