Grenville Dodge: “There is an element in this country that already has no use for the soldier of the Civil War.”

The right side is beginning to get a hearing, and when the facts and causes for the action of the Army are generally known, it will be found that our Army is as humane and well-behaved a body of troops as ever went into a foreign country…

We were always careful that no cruelties were committed by enlisted men, but whatever was done was by the order of an officer.

It is the duty of every companion here, as well as of every good citizen, to enter his protest against these unjust attacks.

There is no officer listening to me who did not see cruelties in the Civil War.