If Grant only does this thing right down there - I don't care how, so long as he does it right - why, Grant is my man and I am his the rest of the war!

We must go back to the campaigns of Napoleon to find equally brillant results accomplished in the same space of time with such a small loss.

I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

A man he was without vices, with an absolute hatred for lies, and an ineradicable love of truth, of a perfect loyalty to friendship, neither envious of others …