I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

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.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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

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.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.