I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANMy 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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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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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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 will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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