General W. T. Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (c. 1820-1891)

"I have again and again been invited to write a history of the war, or to record for publication my personal recollections of it, with large offers of money therefor; all of which I have heretofore declined, because the truth is not always palatable, and should not always be told."

• From The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (Chapter IX) by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).

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General William T. Sherman

General William T. Sherman (c. 1820-1891)


"I have never been a politician, and therefore undervalue the excited feelings and opinions of present rulers, but I do not think, if this people cannot execute a form of government like the present, that a worse one will result."

• From a letter by Sherman to Governor Moore (January 18, 1861) included in The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).

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W. T. Sherman

General Sherman (1820-1891)

"The great end of peace has been attained, with little or no change in our form of government, and the duty of all good men is to allow the passions of that period to subside, that we may direct our physical and mental labor to repair the waste of war, and to engage in the greater task of continuing our hitherto wonderful national development."

• From The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (Chapter IX) by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).

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General W. T. Sherman

General William T. Sherman (United States military leader, c. 1820-1891)

"Civil war was to be; and, now that it has come and gone, we can rest secure in the knowledge that as the chief cause, slavery, has been eradicated forever, it is not likely to come again."

• From The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (Chapter 1) by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).

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William Tecumseh Sherman

General William T. Sherman (1820-1891)

"The election of Mr. Lincoln fell upon us all like a clap of thunder. People saw and felt that the South had threatened so long that, if she quietly submitted, the question of slavery in the Territories was at an end forever."

• From The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).

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General William Tecumseh Sherman

General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891 CE)

"I have seen a detailed soldier, who got only his monthly pay of eight dollars a month, and twenty cents a day for extra duty, nailing on weather-boards and shingles, alongside a citizen who was paid sixteen dollars a day. This was a real injustice, made the soldiers discontented, and it was hardly to be wondered at that so many deserted."

• From the Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by General Sherman. Renaissance Classics, 2012.

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General W. T. Sherman

General W. T. Sherman (1820-1891)

"Indeed, Florida was the Indian's paradise, was of little value to us, and it was a great pity to remove the Seminoles at all, for we could have collected there all the Choctaws, Creeks, Cherokees, and Chickasaws, in addition to the Seminoles."

• From the Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman. General Sherman was stationed in Florida and South Carolina in the United states prior to the Mexican-American War. He would later become a major figure in the Union victory over the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War.

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