The Friend In My Adversity I Shall

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.

The Distant Rear Of An Army Engaged In Battle Is Not The Best Place From Which To Judge Correctly What Is Going On In Front.

I Believe That Our Great Maker Is Preparing The World, In His Own Good Time, To Become One Nation, Speaking One Language, And When Armies And Navies Will Be No Longer Required.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I Have Had Enough Of This Show Business.

War Is Progressive Because All Instruments Of War Are Progressive.