Feb. 8, 1820 - Feb. 14, 1891
 
 "Grant walked into Vicksburg," he observed, "McClellan walked around Richmond, but Sherman is walking upon Atlanta"

The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial finding Atlanta in much ruin, in 1864.

From the book "The White Tecumseh" by Stanley P. Hirshson
   
"War Is Hell"
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."

 

  
"An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army"

 

  
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

 

  
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."

 

  
"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."
   
"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want"
General of the Army William Tecumseh Sherman in a letter to his brother in 1865.
   
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”