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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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William T. Sherman
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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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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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 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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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.
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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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 see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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