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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

~William Tecumseh Sherman

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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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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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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. 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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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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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 intend to make Georgia howl.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: February 8th, 1820

Died: February 14th, 1891

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