You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country wi…

William Tecumseh Sherman
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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. ✨ Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. The Civil War: A Book of Quotations by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.
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