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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.
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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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