You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

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.

You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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 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 see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.