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.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

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

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.