God Gave Us Lincoln And Liberty, Let

Oh, I Am Heartily Tired Of Hearing About What Lee Is Going To Do. Some Of You Always Seem To Think He Is Suddenly Going To Turn A Double Somersault, And Land In Our Rear And On Both Of Our Flanks At The Same Time. Go Back To Your Command, And Try To Think What Are We Going To Do Ourselves, Instead Of What Lee Is Going To Do.

I Feel That We Are On The Eve Of A New Era, When There Is To Be Great Harmony Between The Federal And Confederate. I Cannot Stay To Be A Living Witness To The Correctness Of This Prophecy; But I Feel It Within Me That It Is To Be So.

Cheap Cigars Come In Handy; They Stifle The Odor Of Cheap Politicians.

There Are Many Men Who Would Have Done Better Than I Did Under The Circumstances In Which I Found Myself. If I Had Never Held Command, If I Had Fallen, There Were 10,000 Behind Who Would Have Followed The Contest To The End And Never Surrendered The Union.

The Cause Of The Great War Of The Rebellion Against The United Status Will Have To Be Attributed To Slavery.