Ulysses S. Grant

"The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times."

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other one isn't.

Let us have peace.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.