Grenville Dodge: “We must either whip the Indians and whip them badly or be whipped ourselves.”

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…

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

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

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