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I have never personally experienced war and I hope you haven’t either. I felt particularly unqualified to describe how war is, how it feels, what it’s like, and what it does to someone who is there. Not to mention what it does to be the one at home while your loved ones are away.
With this in mind, I turned to some experts of similar time periods for reflections of war. One man I drew heavily from was our own William T. Sherman, and his candid and sometimes even amusing take on the American Civil war and as well as war in general.
I thought I'd share some of my favorite quotes from Sherman:
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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