The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.