American - Soldier | February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891
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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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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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.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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