William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes About Civil War

Quotes about: Civil War

• I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Hate, Civil War, Rumor

• 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 Tecumseh Sherman

  Crazy, History, Drunk

• I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, Thinking, Names

• I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Death, Morning, Couple

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1974). “"War is hell!": William T. Sherman's personal narrative of his march through Georgia”

• War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Death, Military, War

  "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.

• After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Men, Thinking

  "The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest". Book by John Allan Wyeth, July 1, 1996.

• You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Civilization, Madness

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

• The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Civil War, Fields

  William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Christmas, Cities, Civil War

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.711, Library of America

• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

• You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Blood

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Civil War, Batteries, Fields

• At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Thinking, Europe, People

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

• I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Sight, Organization

• I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Fierce, Tire

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America

• Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Evil, World

• Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Believe, History

• If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Army, Civil War, Mules

• The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Army, Fate

• You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Mistake

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

• It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Civil War, Disagreeable

• I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Confused, Hands

  William Tecumseh Sherman (2015). “Home Letters of General Sherman”, p.130, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, People, South Carolina

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.228

• War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Perfect, Objects

• You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Talking, People

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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