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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
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.
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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...