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- " You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war." ---------- " I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success."
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- Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
- War is at best barbarism.... 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, more vengeance, more desolation.
- I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
- It will be a thousand years before Grant's character is fully appreciated. Grant is the greatest soldier of our time if not all time... he fixes in his mind what is the true objective and abandons all minor ones.
Feb 9, 2013 · “If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty” Sherman wrote in a letter to General Henry Halleck in Washington “I will tell them that war is war, and not popularity seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war”.
Nov 9, 2023 · In September 1864, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta and warned citizens to evacuate before he burned the town. The mayor and city council implored him to rescind the evacuation order, but Sherman—then commanding the Union’s Army of the West— politely refused and explained why.
"I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success." " 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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1860s
1. Still on the whole the campaign is the best, cleanest and most satisfactory of the war. I have received the most fulsome praise of all men from the President down, but I fear the world will jump to the wrong conclusion that because I am in Atlanta the work is done. Far from it. We must kill three hundred thousand I have told of so often, and the further they run the harder for us to get them. 1.1. Letter to wife
1870s
1. War is Hell. 1.1. This quote originates from his address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy(19 June 1879); but slightly varying accounts of this speech have been published: 1.2. I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two...
William Tecumseh Sherman, although not a career military commander before the war, would become one of "the most widely renowned of the Union’s military leaders next to U. S. Grant.” Sherman, one o...
Profile at The American Experience(PBS)Works by William Tecumseh Sherman at Project GutenbergApr 29, 2022 · Deeper knowledge of William Sherman and of armed conflict will better equip leaders in the West to confront the true nature of future war. Then, when war invariably comes, Americans will be better prepared to secure the “more perfect peace” for which Sherman hoped – and which he believed was war’s true “object.”
Mar 31, 2022 · A career soldier and a careful scholar of the military profession, William Tecumseh Sherman knew that wars are part of human nature, and are unavoidably cruel and harsh.
