War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

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