The only good Indian is a dead Indian

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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

We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.