Several folks with time on their hands wrote in to point out that Lee lost the war. As if that had anything to do with the price of eggs. It’s the thought that counts, folks. But if you only count winning generals, how about Sherman? This came in over the transom:

“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman