If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Henry Thomas, John Pope, John Gray Foster (1866). “Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session”, p.190
