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Show ' WHAT GENERAL SHERMAN SAID The Park Record says that the famous statement made by Sherman about war is seldom ever printed in full, but only the last three words. Sherman is supposed to have made the statement state-ment when he was at Atlanta or Savannah, and according to the Recor.d is as follows : "I confess without shame, that I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. Even success, the most brilliant, is over dead and mangled bodies, the anguish and lamentation of distant families appealing to me for missing sons, husbands, and fathers. It is only those who have not heard a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded and lacerated, that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." There are many stories concerning the manner in which Sherman used the famous statement, but it is probable that the above is correct. Of course he may have used it more than once. -It is said that he used it in explaining the situation to some civilians who called on him after the burning of Atlanta. It is also said that he used it in a message he sent back home after his victorious march to the sea, in which he said, "We are not only in a hostile country, but we are a hostile people and must make old and young alike, feel the hard hand of war." There are others who deny that Sherman ever made the statement, state-ment, but that some one else coined the expression and accrdited it to the great general. But regardless of how it got started it has added much tp the fame of Sherman and he is more universally univer-sally known by that saying than by any of his battles. t |