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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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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 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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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.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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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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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