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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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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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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
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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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The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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