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"It is but those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who weep aloud for blood, more vengeance, more pathos. War is hell."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood past him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other."
― William T. Sherman

"I call back I know what war machine fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your proper name misspelled in the newspapers."
― William T. Sherman

"You might besides appeal confronting a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no apply trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say allow usa give them
all they want."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine information technology; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people tin pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-twenty-four hour period than any of you to secure peace."
― William T. Sherman, Memoirs of General West.T. Sherman

"War is cruelty. In that location'south no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"You people of the S don't know what y'all are doing. This land volition be drenched in blood, and God simply knows how it volition terminate."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, i almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, 1 would almost be damaged past travel in these celebrated lands."
― William T. Sherman

"Vocalism populi, vocalisation Humbug."
― William T. Sherman

"You lot might every bit well appeal confronting the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can promise once again to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which tin merely be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride."
― William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, information technology is all hell."
― William T. Sherman

"I hereby country, and mean all that I say, that I never take been and never volition be a candidate for President; that if nominated past either party, I should peremptorily turn down; and even if unanimously elected I should pass up to serve."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"You people of the South don't know what y'all are doing. This country will exist drenched in blood, and God only knows how information technology will finish. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking most.
War is a terrible thing! You error, likewise, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people merely an earnest people, and they volition fight, also. They are non going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to salve it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of state of war to contend against them? The North tin make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of textile or pair of shoes can you make. Y'all are rushing into war with one of the about powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and adamant people on World — right at your doors.
You are bound to neglect. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else y'all are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At start you volition make headway, simply as your limited resource begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe equally you will be, your cause will brainstorm to wane. If your people volition but stop and think, they must run across in the end that yous volition surely fail."
― William T. Sherman

"If I had my selection I would kill every reporter in the earth, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell earlier breakfast."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"I have for some days held and controlled every avenue past which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and I am therefore justified in enervating the give up of the city…I am prepared to grant liberal terms to the inhabitants and garrison; but should I be forced to resort to attack, or the slower and surer process of starvation, I shall then feel justified in resorting to the harshest measures, and shall brand little effort to restrain my army—burning to avenge the national wrong which they attach to Savannah and other big cities which take been and then prominent in dragging our country into civil war."
― William T. Sherman, Memoirs of Full general W.T. Sherman

"This officeholder forced his fashion through the crowd to the carriage, and said: "Mr. President, I accept a cause of grievance. This morning I went to speak to Colonel Sherman, and he threatened to shoot me." Mr. Lincoln, who was even so standing, said, "Threatened to shoot yous?" "Yes, sir, he threatened to shoot me." Mr. Lincoln looked at him, then at me, and stooping his tall, spare form toward the officeholder, said to him in a loud phase-whisper, hands heard for some yards around: "Well, if I were you, and he threatened to shoot, I would not trust him, for I believe he would do it." The officer turned about and disappeared, and the men laughed at him."
― William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

"The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a human being is too lazy to piece of work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion."
― William T. Sherman

"State of war is hell."
― Full general William T. Sherman

"Never give reasons for what yous think or practice until you must. Perchance after a while, a ameliorate reason will pop into your caput."
― William T Sherman

"And so, as at present, neatness in wearing apparel and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found non to excel in any of these."
― William T. Sherman, Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman - Volume 1

"People are deceived and fatigued on step past step, till war, death and devastation are upon them."
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"nosotros saw something swimming in the water, and pulled toward it, thinking it a coyote; but we soon recognized a large grizzly deport, pond directly across the channel. Non having whatsoever weapon, nosotros hurriedly pulled for the schooner, calling out, as we neared information technology, "A behave! a conduct!" Information technology so happened that Major Miller was on deck, washing his face and hands. He ran rapidly to the bow of the vessel, took the musket from the hands of the lookout man, and fired at the behave, as he passed only a short distance ahead of the schooner. The bear rose, fabricated a growl or howl, but continued his class. Equally we scrambled up the port-adjutant to get our guns, the mate, with a crew, happened to have a gunkhole on the starboard-adjutant, and, armed simply with a hatchet, they pulled up alongside the conduct, and the mate struck him in the caput with the hatchet. The behave turned, tried to get into the gunkhole, but the mate struck his claws with repeated blows, and made him allow go. After several passes with him, the mate actually killed the behave, got a rope round him, and towed him alongside the schooner, where he was hoisted on deck. The carcass weighed over half dozen hundred pounds. It was found that Major Miller's shot had struck the bear in the lower jaw, and thus disabled him. Had it not been for this, the bear would certainly have upset the boat and drowned all in it. As it was, however, his meat served us a proficient turn in our trip up to Stockton."
― William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

"General Taylor participated in the commemoration of the Quaternary of July, a very hot day, by hearing a long speech from the Hon. Henry S. Foote, at the base of the Washington Monument. Returning from the celebration much heated and drawn, he partook too freely of his favorite iced milk with cherries, and during that night was seized with a severe colic, which by morning had quite prostrated him. It was said that he sent for his son-in-law, Surgeon Woods, United States Army, stationed in Baltimore, and declined medical assistance from anybody else. Mr. Ewing visited him several times, and was manifestly uneasy and anxious, as was too his son-in-law, Major Bliss, then of the ground forces, and his confidential secretarial assistant. He rapidly grew worse, and died in nigh four days."
― William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of Full general William T. Sherman

"La guerra es el infierno"
― William Tecumseh Sherman

"These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was some other strong agency in producing the result we relish to-day, in having in so short a fourth dimension replaced the wild buffaloes past more than numerous herds of tame cattle, and by substituting for the useless Indians the intelligent owners of productive farms and cattle-ranches."
― William T. Sherman, Memoirs of General Westward.T. Sherman

"General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to announced too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men, and was struck across the chest by an unexploded beat, which killed him instantly."
― William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

"In the very midst of this panic came the news that the steamer Central America, formerly the George Constabulary, with 6 hundred passengers and most sixteen hundred g dollars of treasure, coming from Aspinwall, had foundered at sea, off the coast of Georgia, and that most sixty of the passengers had been providentially picked up by a Swedish bark, and brought into Savannah. The accented loss of this treasure went to cracking the defoliation and panic of the solar day. A few days after, I was standing in the vestibule of the Metropolitan Hotel, and heard the captain of the Swedish bark tell his singular story of the rescue of these passengers. He was a short, sailor-like-looking man, with a strong German language or Swedish accent. He said that he was sailing from some port in Republic of honduras for Sweden, running down the Gulf Stream off Savannah. The weather condition had been heavy for some days, and, most nightfall, every bit he paced his deck, he observed a human being-of-war hawk circle about his vessel, gradually lowering, until the bird was as it were aiming at him. He jerked out a belaying pivot, struck at the bird, missed it, when the hawk once more rose high in the air, and a 2d time began to descend, contract his circumvolve, and make at him again. The second time he hit the bird, and struck it to the deck. . . . This strange fact made him uneasy, and he thought information technology betokened danger; he went to the binnacle, saw the course he was steering, and without any item reason he ordered the steersman to alter the course 1 point to the east. Afterwards this it became quite dark, and he continued to promenade the deck, and had settled into a drowsy state, when as in a dream he thought he heard voices all round his ship. Waking up, he ran to the side of the send, saw something struggling in the water, and heard clearly cries for aid. Instantly heaving his ship to, and lowering all his boats, he managed to pick up 60 or more persons who were floating well-nigh on skylights, doors, spare, and whatever fragments remained of the Fundamental America. Had he not changed the course of his vessel by reason of the mysterious conduct of that human being-of-war hawk, not a soul would probably have survived the dark."
― William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of Full general William T. Sherman

"Swords were brought out, guns oiled and made set, and everything was in a hurry when the former Lexington dropped her anchor on January 26, 1847, in Monterey Bay, later on a voyage of one hundred and xc-eight days from New York. Everything on shore looked bright and beautiful, the hills covered with grass and flowers, the live oaks and so serene and homelike, and the low adobe houses, with red-tiled roofs and whitened walls, contrasted well with the nighttime pine trees behind, making a decidedly expert impression upon us who had come and then far to spy out the land. Goose egg could exist more than peaceful in its looks than Monterey in January, 1847."
― William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of Full general William T. Sherman

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