You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

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

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.