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« on: August 14, 2007, 12:53:59 am » |
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"Next year their lands will be taken, for in war we can take them, and rightfully too, and another year they may beg in vain for their lives. A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many many people, with less pertinacity than the South, have been wiped out of national existence. To those who submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionist, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better."
--- General William T. Sherman, Native St. Louisan, and brother - in - law to General Thomas Ewing (Order #11)
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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2007, 01:01:16 am » |
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"There is a class of people (in the South), men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order."
--- General William T. Sherman, Native St. Louisan, and brother - in - law to General Thomas Ewing (Order #11)
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2007, 01:02:15 am » |
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"I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple of thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash."
--- General William T. Sherman, in a letter he wrote his wife in July 1864 while in northern Georgia
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007, 08:10:17 am » |
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I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
William Tecumseh Sherman,
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"The South went to war on account of slavery... South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln...don't you think South Carolina ought to know why it went to war?"
John Singleton Mosby
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2007, 08:10:36 am » |
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-War is cruel, and you cannot refine it.
W.T. Sherman
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Shane Christen
"The South went to war on account of slavery... South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln...don't you think South Carolina ought to know why it went to war?"
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2007, 08:10:52 am » |
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
W.T. Sherman
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"The South went to war on account of slavery... South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln...don't you think South Carolina ought to know why it went to war?"
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2007, 08:11:27 am » |
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God will judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and brave people at our back, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people. W.T. Sherman
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"The South went to war on account of slavery... South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln...don't you think South Carolina ought to know why it went to war?"
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2007, 08:12:05 am » |
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it... You might as well appeal against the thunder storm as against these terrible hardships of war... We don't want your negroes, or your houses, or your lands, or anything you have, but we do want and will have first obedience to the laws of the United States... if it involves the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it... But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for anything. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter. W.T. Sherman
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"The South went to war on account of slavery... South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln...don't you think South Carolina ought to know why it went to war?"
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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2007, 08:12:51 am » |
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My heart bleeds when I see... the desolution of homes, the bitter anguish of families, but the very moment the men of the South say that instead of appealing to war they should have appealed to reason, to our Congress, to our courts, to religion, and to the experiance of history, then I will say peace; go back to your point of error, and resume your places as American citizens, with all their proud heritages. W.T. Sherman
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"The South went to war on account of slavery... South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln...don't you think South Carolina ought to know why it went to war?"
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« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2007, 08:13:44 am » |
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The soldiers and people of the south entertained an undue fear of our western men, and invented such ghostlike stories of our progress through Georgia that they were scared by their own inventions... this was a power, and I intended to utilize it. W.T. Sherman
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"The South went to war on account of slavery... South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln...don't you think South Carolina ought to know why it went to war?"
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