Knute Nelson

"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."

"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."

"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."

"It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated."