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
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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.
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.
But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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.
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.