War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. 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, but if it has to come, I am there.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.