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13 Copy quote. The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish. William Tecumseh Sherman. Two, Political, Pelicans. 40 Copy quote. I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
- “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.
- “Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.” ― William T. Sherman.
- “I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.” ― William T. Sherman.
- “War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them. all they want.” ― William Tecumseh Sherman.
May 23, 2022 · Forty acres and a mule is part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a post-Civil War promise proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres. Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform ...
Jan 17, 2012 · The Sherman who, a decade later in his memoirs, still recalled by name a former cadet killed in the terrible carnage at Shiloh. Sherman’s relationship with the South makes him one of the most paradoxical and polarizing figures of the Civil War. He understood, and to a great extent embraced, the beliefs and values that led the South to secede.
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1860s
1. Still on the whole the campaign is the best, cleanest and most satisfactory of the war. I have received the most fulsome praise of all men from the President down, but I fear the world will jump to the wrong conclusion that because I am in Atlanta the work is done. Far from it. We must kill three hundred thousand I have told of so often, and the further they run the harder for us to get them. 1.1. Letter to wife
1870s
1. War is Hell. 1.1. This quote originates from his address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy(19 June 1879); but slightly varying accounts of this speech have been published: 1.2. I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two...
William Tecumseh Sherman, although not a career military commander before the war, would become one of "the most widely renowned of the Union’s military leaders next to U. S. Grant.” Sherman, one o...
Profile at The American Experience(PBS)Works by William Tecumseh Sherman at Project GutenbergJun 10, 2010 · Fun fact#1: The "Negroes" were only there because Sherman left them behind. When Sherman invaded Georgia, he took what he deemed to be his best soldiers, all of whom were white.
Jan 16, 2015 · In a Jan. 15, 1865 letter from Savannah, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman reported to his wife, Ellen, that Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton “has been here and is cured of that Negro nonsense” – namely, Stanton’s insistence that black regiments be included in his army, an idea Sherman steadfastly opposed.
