# William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (né le 8 février 1820 et mort le 14 février 1891) fut un général de l'Union durant la guerre civile américaine. Il est notamment connu pour sa marche vers la mer ou encore pour la campagne d'Atlanta. Il écrit son autobiographie Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. By Himself en 1875, publiée en deux volumes par D. Appleton & Company.

## Citations

* (en) There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
* « Ohio State Journal », William Tecumseh Sherman (12 août 1880), dans Sherman: Fighting Prophet, Lloyd Lewis, éd. Harcourt, Brace & Co., University of Nebraska Press (réed.), 1932 (1993 réed.) (ISBN 0-8032-7945-0), p. 637
* (en) At the Academy I was not considered a good soldier, for at no time was I selected for any office, but remained a private throughout the whole four years. Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these. In studies I always held a respectable reputation with the professors, and generally ranked among the best, especially in drawing, chemistry, mathematics, and natural philosophy. My average demerits, per annum, were about one hundred and fifty, which reduced my final class standing from number four to six.
* Memoirs, William Tecumseh Sherman, éd. D. Appleton & Company, 1875, p. 16
* (en) 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!
* William Tecumseh Sherman, 24 décembre 1860, Louisiana State Seminary (Commentaire de Sherman au professeur David F. Boyd), dans The Civil War: A Narrative (1986) par Shelby Foote, p.58, William Tecumseh Sherman.
* (en) Why, you might as well attempt to put out the flames of a burning house with a squirt-gun.
* Sherman and His Campaigns, Samuel M. Bowman & Richard B. Irwin, éd. New York, 1865, p. 25
* (en) If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve.
* Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, John F. Marszalek, éd. Heidler, David S., and Heidler, Jeanne T., eds., W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 (ISBN 0-393-04758-X), p. 1769
* (en) The final solution to the Indian problem.
* Dans une lettre adressée au général Ulysses Simpson Grant
* William Tecumseh Sherman, 1867, dans The Independent Institute (article concernant la citation), William Tecumseh Sherman.
* (en) I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting—its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers ... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
* Dans une lettre est écrite à James E. Yeatman
* Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American, Liddell Hart, éd. Da Capo Press, 1993 (ISBN 0-306-80507-3), p. 402
* (en) You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. But you cannot have peace and a division of our country. If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war.[...] I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success. But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for anything. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
* William Tecumseh Sherman, 12 septembre 1864, Atlanta, dans Sage History (article concernant la citation), William Tecumseh Sherman : Dans une lettre au maire et au Conseil municipal d'Atlanta.
* (en) [I]f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village; but I did not do it...
* Sherman and the Burning of Columbia, Marion B. Lucas, éd. Univ. of S. Car. Press, 2000, p. 154
* (en) My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." I did not want them to cast in our teeth what General Hood had once done at Atlanta, that we had to call on their slaves to help us to subdue them. But, as regards kindness to the race . . ., I assert that no army ever did more for that race than the one I commanded at Savannah.
* Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, éd. D. Appleton & Co., 1990 (ISBN 978-0-94045065-3), p. 729
* (en) If you can whip Lee and I can march to the Atlantic I think ol' Uncle Abe will give us twenty days leave to see the young folks.
* Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, éd. D. Appleton & Co., 1990 (ISBN 978-0-94045065-3), p. 589
* (en) Make Georgia howl.
* Télégramme de William Tecumseh Sherman au général Ulysses Simpson Grant.
* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman,1860–1865, Brooks D. Simpson, et J. V. Berlin, éd. University of North Carolina Press, 1999 (ISBN 0-8078-2440-2), p. 731–732
* (en) I feel anxious about you as I know the great facilities [the Confederates] have of concentration by means of the River and R Road, but [I] have faith in you — Command me in any way.
* Grant, Jean Edward Smith, éd. Simon and Schuster, 2001 (ISBN 0-684-84927-5), p. 151–52
* (en) I still think it is to be a long war – very long – much longer than any Politician thinks.
* William Tecumseh Sherman, dans une lettre adressée à Thomas Ewing Jr.
* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman,1860–1865, Brooks D. Simpson, et J. V. Berlin, éd. University of North Carolina Press, 1999 (ISBN 0-8078-2440-2), p. 97-98
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