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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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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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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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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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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