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

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Topic

Horrors of war War American Civil War

Author

William Tecumseh Sherman

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Occupation

General Soldier

From

United States

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Original Citation

Sherman, William Tecumseh. Letter to Mayor James M. Calhoun and E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells. 12 Sept. 1864.

Current Citation

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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Time
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Hugo, Victor. William Shakespeare. Paris: Lacroix & Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1864, pt. 1, bk. 2, ch. 4.