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
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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.
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.
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy...
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.