Two or three million men who have done nothing but fighting for four years will be out of employment.
Vast numbers of them will not know which way to turn.

They will be wholly unfit, until they have trained themselves anew, for the pursuits of peace.

Captains, majors, colonels and, yes, generals, will be besieging me for jobs, as zealously as they're now besieging Lee's army in the trenches before Petersburg, and with as much cause.

When the war is over the soldier will not be of so much value, and the man of peace will regain his own.

I hope you've thought of these things, Captain Mason." "I've thought of them many times, Mr.Watson, and I've thought of them oftener than ever this winter.