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
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
Hold the fort! I am coming!
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
War is Hell you can NOT refine it!
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.