I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.