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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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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 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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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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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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