 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1971 - 1064 pages
...will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best born Southerner among you. If we must be enemies, let us be men and...judge us in due time, and He will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women, and the families of "a brave people " at our back,... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
...that war is war, and if the rebel families wanted peace they and their relatives must stop fighting. "God will judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women, and the families of a brave people at our back,... | |
 | Edward Robins - Generals - 1905 - 406 pages
...make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among yon ! If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it...judge us in due time, and He will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a ' brave people ' at our back,... | |
 | Arthur Wilson Page - World War, 1914-1918 - 1914 - 252 pages
...satisfactorily than the following from a letter from General Sherman to the Confederate General Hood: "If we must be enemies let us be men and fight it...in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity." An important point to be borne in mind is that what is really part and parcel of warfare is denounced... | |
 | Thomas Babe - Drama - 1977 - 68 pages
...houses. To be sure. I have made war vindictively; war is war and you can make nothing else of it; but if we must be enemies, let us be men and fight it out as we propose to do, and not deal in hypocritical appeals to God and humanity." SHERMAN. (Startled.) It is not enough that you have read... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among you! If we must be enemies, let us be men and...judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a brave people at our back, or... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - History - 1994 - 278 pages
...humanity I protest." Sherman replied in a letter he intended for the northern press and not just for Hood, "If we must be enemies, let us be men and fight it out . . . and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and Humanity. God will judge in due time," but... | |
 | Gregory Crane - Political Science - 1998 - 384 pages
...will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among you! If we must be enemies, let us be men, and...judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a brave people at our back, or... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...missed the trenches struck a house inhabited by women and children. "If we must be enemies," he wrote, "let us be men and fight it out as we propose to do,...God and humanity. God will judge us in due time." Hoping to draw Sherman out of Georgia, Hood skipped around Atlanta and headed north with his army to... | |
 | James Charlton - Reference - 2002 - 204 pages
...brutality, but we face facts like men. It is not a trade for a philosopher. PRINCE DE LINGE. of Austria If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose to do, and not deal in hypocritical appeals to God and humanity. GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, to General John Bell Hood, outside... | |
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Talk thus to the marines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and who will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among you! 
