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William Tecumseh Sherman

b: Lancaster, Ohio, Aug 2, 1820

d: New York, New York, Feb 14, 1891

American. Military Leader. Civil War Union general famous for march through Atlanta to the sea, 1864; said "War is Hell," 1880.

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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Enemies must be killed or transported to some other country.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

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

Hold the fort! I am coming!

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

I began 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.

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. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.

I have deemed it to the interest of the United States that the citizens now residing in atlanta should remove, those who prefer it to go South and the rest North.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

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

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

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

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

In our Country ... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

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.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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.

Put "Faithful and Honorable; faithful and honorable!"

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

The knowledge of geography in its minute details is essential to a true military education.

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

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

There is a class of people, men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order.

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

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.

Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction of it's roads, houses, and PEOPLE will cripple their military resources….I can make the march, and make Georgia howl.

War is at its best barbarism.

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

War is hell.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We are in our enemy's country, and I act accordingly...the war will soon assume a turn to extermination not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people.

You may as well say, "That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."