"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."
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"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.“
-William Tecumseh Sherman
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"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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"He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war."
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"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
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"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."
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"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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