At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.

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 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.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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.

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

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.