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General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days.

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.