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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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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War is hell.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


#hell

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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I intend to make Georgia howl.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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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.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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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.


— William Tecumseh Sherman


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About William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes




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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