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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.
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 the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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