The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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War is hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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