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There is no doubt we could soon wipe old Sherman off the face of the earth, John, if they'd give me enough men and you enough guns.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

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If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Get there first with the most men.

I never see a pen but I think of a snake.

That we are beaten is a self-evident fact, and any further resistance on our part would be justly regarded as the very height of folly and rashness.

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