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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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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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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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We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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 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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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