War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

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.

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.

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.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.