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Famous William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”
Source: Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.”
“There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.”
“You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.”
Source: Memoirs Of General Sherman - 2nd. Edition, Revised And Corrected [Illustrated - 2 Volumes In One]
Source: The Life of Uncle Billy - Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman: Early Life, Memories of Mexican & Civil War, Post-war Period; Including Official Army Documents and Military Maps
Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Source: Home Letters of General Sherman
Source: War is hell!
“Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.”
“After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.”
Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Source: Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session