Let Us Go Home And Cultivate Our

There Is Always Hazard In Military Activity, But We Must Decide Between The Positive Loss Of Inactivity And The Risk Of Action.

I Will Attack No Matter What And Win The War!

The Questions Which For Years Were In Dispute Between The State And General Government, And Which Unhappily Were Not Decided By The Dictates Of Reason, But Referred To The Decision Of War, Having Been Decided Against Us, It Is The Part Of Wisdom To Acquiesce In The Result, And Of Candor To Recognize The Fact.

With All My Devotion To The Union, And The Feeling Of Loyalty And Duty Of An American Citizen, I Have Not Been Able To Make Up My Mind To Raise My Hand Against My Relative, My Children, My Home. I Have, Therefore, Resigned My Commission In The Army.

The Education Of A Man Is Never Completed Until He Dies.