I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

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

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.