William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman /tᵻˈkʌmsə/was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 February 1820
CityLancester, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I intend to make Georgia howl.
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.
At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.