"My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully."

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I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

— Ulysses S. Grant