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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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William Tecumseh Sherman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 8
Died: 1891
Died: February 14
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
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