It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.