Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman

…[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

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Robbing

Trading

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

Batteries

Civil War

Fields

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

Men

Thinking

War

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

Army

Men

Military

Hold the fort! I am coming!

Forts

War

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Christmas

Cities

Civil War

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

Couple

Death

Morning

I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers … it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated … that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

Father

Husband

Tired

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Civil War

Hate

Rumor

I intend to make Georgia howl.

Georgia

Howl

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Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman

…[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

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