Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day, in having in so...