He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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War is hell.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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