He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

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.

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.