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.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

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

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.

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