William Tecumseh Sherman

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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
War is at its best barbarism.

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