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William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes about Civil War

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Hate, Civil War, Rumor

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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Civil War, Fields

William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

Christmas, Cities, Civil War

William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.711, Library of America

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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Civil War, Disagreeable

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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Civil War, Batteries, Fields

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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Army, Civil War, Mules

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