"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
William T. Sherman
@Q1
"Get down, you fool, or you'll be killed!"
Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes, to Abraham Lincoln
@Q2
"Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can, and strike him as hard as you can. And keep moving on!"
Ulysses S. Grant
@Q3
"Do you see those colors? Take them!"
Winfield S. Hancock
@Q4
"It will be all right if it turns out all right."
Ulysses S. Grant
@Q5
"Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also."
Ulysses S. Grant, to General Meade
@Q6
"Hold on with a bull-dog grip and chew and choke as much as possible."
Abraham Lincoln, to Ulysses S. Grant
@Q7
"Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear."
Union General John Pope
@Q8
"I am short a cheekbone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet."
Union General John M. Corse
@Q9
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln
@Q10
"An officer fired his pistol at my head with one hand, while he handed me his sword with the other."
Joshua Chamberlain
@Q11
"Give them hell! Give them a solid shot! Damn them, give them anything!"
James E. Smith, to his gunners.
@Q12
"Battles are to be won, now, and by us, in the same and only manner that they were ever won by any people since the days of Joshua-by boldly pursuing and striking the foe."
Edwin M. Stanton, in a letter to the New York Tribune
@Q13
"Should my success be less than I desire and expect, the least I can say is, the fault is not with you."
Ulysses S. Grant, in a letter to President Lincoln
@Q14
"Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!"
Northern Battle Cry at Pickett's Charge
@Q15
"Colonel, do you see those colors? Then take them!"
Winfield Scott Hancock
@Q16
"Oh, the din and the roar, and these thirty thousand rebel wolf-cries! What a hell is there down that valley!"
Franklin Haskell, of the fighting at Gettysburg
@Q17
"Now, boys, look out; you will see some fun."
Alexander Hays at Gettysburg
@Q18
"We are tired of scientific leaders and regard strategy as it is called-a humbug. Next thing to cowardice. What we want is a leader who will go ahead."
Alexander Hays in speaking of Meade
@Q19
"I have got Lee just where I want him; he must fight me on my own ground."