Ulysses S. Grant

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

I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on.

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go any where, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.