"I think I understand what military fame is; to be
killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
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"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."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"...we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and
young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies. I know that
this recent movement of mine through Georgia has had a wonderful effect in this respect.
Thousands who had been deceived by their lying newspapers to believe that we were being whipped
all the time now realize the truth, and have no appetite for a repetition of the same experience...
Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I
answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, "Well, if you
will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation
of Georgia."
William T. Sherman, in a letter to Major-General H. W. Halleck, Chief-of-Staff, Washington, D.C.,
December 24, 1864
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"Put 'Faithful and Honorable; faithful and honorable!"
William T. Sherman, 1891, in response to his daughter when, on his deathbed, she asked him about the
inscription he wished to have on his monument.
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