I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a…

William Tecumseh Sherman
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened. ✨ William Tecumseh Sherman (1974). War is hell!: William T. Sherman's personal narrative of his march through Georgia
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened. ✨ William Tecumseh Sherman (1974). War is hell!: William T. Sherman's personal narrative of his march through Georgia

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