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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
“the report that I was "crazy, insane, and mad," that "I had demanded two hundred thousand men for the defense of Kentucky”
Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. IX (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))
Sherman recalls the newspaper campaign of late 1861 that led to his removal from command in Kentucky.
Citation: "the report that I was "crazy, insane, and mad," that "I had demanded two hundred thousand men for the defense of Kentucky" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. IX (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q3)
Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
