"Who is to furnish the snow for this Moscow retreat?"

Remark of General Ulysses S. Grant on the occasion of remarks by Confederate President Jefferson Davis after Gen. W.T. Sherman captured Atlanta and turned toward South Carolina.

Davis had told crowds in Georgia and South Carolina, "I see no chance for Sherman to escape from a defeat or a disgraceful retreat.  The fate that befell the army of the French Empire in its retreat from Moscow will be re-enacted."