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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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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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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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