"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you." - William T Sherman

"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."

-Gen. William T. Sherman, US

"Even with all the sorrow that hangs, and will forever hang, over so many households; even while war still rages; even while there are serious questions yet to be settled -- ought it not to be, and is it not, a merry Christmas?"

-Harper's Weekly, December 26, 1863