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

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

William Tecumseh Sherman · Christmas

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William Tecumseh Sherman

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

Peace

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.

War

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.

War

William Tecumseh Sherman

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.

War