I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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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