Daniel McBain

“most accounts of the war, Missouri tends to wink out of existence after the first year, or makes periodic cameos as a sideshow of guerrilla warfare in which the brutality takes center stage rather than the military role of those brutalities within the wider conflict.”
― Mark A. Lause, Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri

“Let the fortifications of the sea-coasts and the fleets of battle-ships and cruisers on the ocean be commensurate with the vast national interests and honor intrusted to their protection and defense; let the standing army be sufficient to discharge the duties which require long and scientific education and training, and to serve as models and instructors for the millions of young citizens: then will the United States, by being always ready for war, insure to themselves all the blessings of peace, and this at a cost utterly insignificant in comparison with the cost of one great war.”
― John Mcallister Schofield, Forty-Six Years in the Army

“the devastation and misery that attend our progress, but that all history teaches us that war, pestilence and famine are the usual order of things by which the Almighty allays the storms of human passion after the long calm of peace.”
― Wesley Moody, Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History

“that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”40”
― Wesley Moody, Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History