- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: No, not my leg... and not that fever from Panama, nor the ague or this headache... this thundering headache... the pounding boots of a thousand ghostly battalions battering at this brain... The men I sent to die... the men I will... those like you. Do you know what it's like to bury four thousand men in one grave? I do.
- Jason McCord: General, someone has to give those orders. There's no one we'd rather follow.
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: On the Eve of any battle, there is a destiny that makes some men enemies and some men brothers. And so ten years ago tonight, destiny made a choice... And so, McCord, on the Eve of that battle, Destiny had chose to make us brothers. It's been ten years now. About time we had that drink.
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: This Army's going to dive in at Pittsburgh and come out in salt water in the Atlantic.
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: West Point?
- Jason McCord: Yes, sir.
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: Me too. Top of your class?
- Jason McCord: Near top, sir.
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: Me too, if you turn the class upsidedown.