An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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 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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War is at its best barbarism.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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