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

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.

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

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.