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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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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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