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Quotes from Letter to the City of Atlanta — William Tecumseh Sherman

1820–1891 United States

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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.

Letter to the City of Atlanta (1864)

You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better.

Letter to the City of Atlanta (1864)

We do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and, if it involves the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it.

Letter to the City of Atlanta (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)

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