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.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. 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.

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

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

War is at best barbarism.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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.