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“There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.”

William Tecumseh Sherman · War

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William Tecumseh Sherman

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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