I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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- An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
- Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
- My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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