Let Us Go Home And Cultivate Our

We Made A Great Mistake In The Beginning Of Our Struggle, And I Fear, In Spite Of All We Can Do, It Will Prove To Be A Fatal Mistake. We Appointed All Our Worst Generals To Command Our Armies, And All Our Best Generals To Edit The Newspapers

I Am Now Considered Such A Monster, That I Hesitate To Darken With My Shadow, The Doors Of Those I Love, Lest I Should Bring Upon Them Misfortune.

We Must Forgive Our Enemies.

No Blame Can Be Attached To The Army For Its Failure To Accomplish What Was Projected By Me... I Alone Am To Blame, In Perhaps Expecting Too Much Of Its Prowess And Valor... Could I Have Foreseen That The Attack On The Last Day Would Fail, I Should Certainly Have Tried Some Other Course... But I Do Not Know What Better Course I Could Have Pursued.

Many Opportunities Have Been Lost And Hundreds Of Valuable Lives Uselessly Sacrificed For Want Of A Strict Observance Of Discipline. Its Object Is To Enable An Army To Bring Promptly Into Action The Largest Possible Number Of Its Men, In Good Order And Under The Control Of Their Officers. Its Effects Are Visible In All Military History, Which Records The Triumphs Of Discipline And Courage Far More Frequently Than Those Of Numbers And Resources.