5 Quotes & Sayings By William T Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and then as a general in the postbellum United States Army for over a decade. A controversial figure among his contemporaries, Sherman was praised by his enemies as one of the best Union Army generals and as one of the worst. Historians have long regarded him as one of the military leaders in American history.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I...
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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
It is only those who have neither fired a shot...
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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. William T. Sherman
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These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day, in having in so short a time replaced the wild buffaloes by more numerous herds of tame cattle, and by substituting for the useless Indians the intelligent owners of productive farms and cattle-ranches. William T. Sherman
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(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it. William T. Sherman