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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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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 act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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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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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. 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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