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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot… — William Tecumseh Sherman

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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

William Tecumseh Sherman
1864
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Horrors of warWarAmerican Civil War
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1864
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. University of North Carolina Press, 1999, ch. 12.
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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Letter to Mayor James M. Calhoun and E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells. 12 Sept. 1864.

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