Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South …

William Tecumseh Sherman
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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia. ✨ William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, p.228
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