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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
“We accepted the issue, and now they begin to realize that war is a two-edged sword, and it may be that many of the inhabitants cry for peace”
Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIII (letter to Halleck, 17 September 1863) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))
From his camp on the Big Black River, Sherman analyses the classes of the Southern population and argues that their will to fight is the true object of war.
Citation: "We accepted the issue, and now they begin to realize that war is a two-edged sword, and it may be that many of the inhabitants cry for peace" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIII (letter to Halleck, 17 September 1863) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q8)
Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
