A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

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

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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.