George F. Hoar: “The rough country boy, if he had it in him, came out at his graduation a gentleman in behavior and in character.”

One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.

I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.

His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.

And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.