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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
“Before the battle of Shiloh, I had been cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of "crazy;" but that single battle had given me new life, and now I was in high feather”
Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XI (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))
Urging a discouraged Grant not to leave the army, Sherman uses his own recovery from public disgrace as the example.
Citation: "Before the battle of Shiloh, I had been cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of "crazy;" but that single battle had given me new life, and now I was in high feather" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XI (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q4)
Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
