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. War is a terrible thing! ... You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors!
More from William Tecumseh Sherman
I 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.
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