 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...that we will have the entire use of the railroad back, and also such corn and forage as may bo readied by our troops. If the people raise a howl against...and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking." This lust determination he executed to the letter. A email portion of the inhabitants... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 422 pages
...purpose, as early as the 4th of September, to General Halleck, in a letter concluding with these words : If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and...peace, they and their relatives must stop the war. I knew, of course, that such a measure would be strongly criticised, but made up my mind to do it with... | |
 | Richard Taylor - Reconstruction - 1879 - 416 pages
...purpose as early as the 4th of September, to General Halleck, in a letter concluding with these words : 'If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and...popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relations must stop the war.' " On pages 124-126 appears the correspondence of General Sherman with... | |
 | Richard Taylor - Reconstruction - 1879 - 296 pages
...purpose as early as the 4th of September, to General Halleck, in a letter concluding with these words : ' If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity -seeking. If they want peace, they and their relations must stop the war.' " On pages 124-6... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1891 - 1128 pages
...allow no trade, manufactories, nor any citizens there at all, so that we will have the entire use of railroad back, as also such corn and forage as may...they want peace they and their relatives must stop war. WT SHERMAN, Major-Oeneral. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT op THE CUMBERLAND, September 4, 1864—13 m.... | |
 | Euripides, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff - 1889 - 720 pages
...amenities of peace."45 "If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty," said Sherman, "I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking....want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war."4" We cannot very well measure the effectiveness of campaigns waged against men's minds. Sherman... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...passionate criticism which this action would provoke and was prepared for it. "If the people," he said, "raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop ^m!" the war." On arriving... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 580 pages
...passionate criticism which this action would provoke and was prepared for it. "If the people," he said, "raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. If ..KSre.." they want peace, they and their relatives must stop \?\n." the war."... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1891 - 646 pages
...purpose, as early as the 4th of September, to General Halleck, in a letter concluding with these words: If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and...peace, they and their relatives must stop the war. I knew, of course, that such a measure would be strongly criticised, but made up my mind to do it with... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1892 - 630 pages
...with barbarity and cruelty by the Confederate press and its congeners in the North. He answered, " If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. If they want peace they and their relatives must stop the war." He says he " knew... | |
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If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war. 
