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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman

“In accepting war, it should be "pure and simple" as applied to the belligerents”

William Tecumseh Sherman

Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIII (letter to Halleck, 17 September 1863) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))

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Sherman's compressed statement of the hard-war principle he would apply in Georgia.

Citation: "In accepting war, it should be "pure and simple" as applied to the belligerents" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIII (letter to Halleck, 17 September 1863) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q9)

Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.

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