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 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.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.