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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.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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War is at its best barbarism.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.


— William Tecumseh 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.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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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.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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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.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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About William Tecumseh Sherman

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Did you know about William Tecumseh Sherman?

He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65) for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. When Grant assumed the U. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee.

Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. S. Military historian B.

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