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
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.
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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...
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.