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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
“generally war is destruction and nothing else”
Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XII (letter from Memphis, 1862) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))
The blunt conclusion of the same letter, a forerunner of the attitude later summed up in the phrase attributed to him, 'war is hell'.
Citation: "generally war is destruction and nothing else" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XII (letter from Memphis, 1862) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q7)
Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
