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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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