"I hear that arms and provisions are coming by every train from the South, and meanwhile we are making no advance." "We can't advance yet," said the other general emphatically.

"McClellan is right in making elaborate preparations and long drills before moving upon the enemy.

It was inexperience, and not want of courage, that beat us at Bull Run." "The Southerners had the same inexperience." "But they had the defensive.

I hear that Tom Jackson saved them, and that they have given him the name Stonewall, because he stood so firm.
I was at West Point with him.

An odd, awkward fellow, but one of the hardest students I have ever known.