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General William Tecumseh Sherman

"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." 

- General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta

"There is many a [boy] who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You must bear this warning voice to generations to come."

- Sherman to his troops


Among the most misunderstood, tragic, and great figures in American History, William T. Sherman stands near the pinnacle.

Both revered and despised, praised and maligned, lionized and demonized, Sherman stands as an example of, among other things, the dangers in arousing the sleeping, righteous wrath of America.  In Judeo-Christian belief, The Arch-Angel Michael represents the "Sword of God" - the unquestioning, unwavering, and unbeatable servant of a merciful God who has been pushed to far. The casting out of Lucifer from paradise.  The destruction of the Egyptian firstborn.  The future captain of Christ's armies at Armageddon.  These are the tasks, according to belief, given to this other-worldly champion.

So was it, in my opinion, that Sherman arose.  Taking on the mantel of a necessary evil in a war in which a flawed, but nevertheless, noble nation, sought to right the wrongs conceived in its birth.  Sherman was a realist, a soldier, a fighting prophet and above all, an American.


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