Grenville Dodge: “They used canister against those columns with terrible effect.”

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 an element in this country that already has no use for the soldier of the Civil War.

I must say this is the first time I ever heard of national honor being sustained by such methods.