A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

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

You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

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