The fact is, I am reaching an age when men long for quiet and repose.

During the war my services belong to my country, and ease must not be thought of; but I trust that the end is not afar off.

The enemy, from many signs, is on the point of final discomfiture.
Nay, a just Providence will doubtless punish the wicked fanatics who have waged this cruel and unjust war upon us, in a way to warn and astonish the nations upon earth.

Infidelity and wickedness in every shape let loose upon themselves, must end in total destruction.

The Yankee States have yet to go through an ordeal they little dreamed of in the beginning of their unholy crusade against the Southern people.
On the 12th, the vessel was within fourteen degrees of the equator, but so cool did the weather still continue that all hands were still wearing woollen clothing, and sleeping under a couple of blankets.