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

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.