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1820–1891 United States
William Tecumseh Sherman (8 February 1820 – 14 February 1891) was a United States Army general during the American Civil War. He succeeded General Ulysses S.
Also known as: Sherman, William Tecumseh, W.T. Sherman, William Sherman, William T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Shirman, War is hell
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I'll tell you where he beats me though and where he beats the world. He doesn't give a damn about what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell.
If the people raise a howl against my barbarity & cruelty, I will answer that War is War & not popularity seeking. If they want peace, they & their relations must stop War.
Letter to Henry W. Halleck (1864)
But these comparisons are idle. 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.
Letter to the City of Atlanta (1864)
All the congresses on earth can’t make the negro anything else than what he is; he must be subject to the white man… Two such races cannot live in harmony save as master and slave.
Letter to his wife (1860)
Three years ago by a little reflection and patience they could have had a hundred years of peace and prosperity, but they preferred war; very well.
Letter to R.M. Sawyer (1864)
I am damned smarter man than Grant.
Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.
Telegram to Abraham Lincoln (1864)
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (1889)
I am satisfied, and have been all the time, that the problem of this war consists in the awful fact that the present class of men who rule the South must be killed outright rather than in the conquest of territory.
Hold the fort! I am coming!
Signal to John M. Corse (1864)
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. Other simple remedies were within their choice. You know it and they know it, but they wanted war, and I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till we are whipped or they are.
Letter to James Guthrie (1864)
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