 | Gregory Crane - Political Science - 2023 - 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... | |
 | Brian M. Thomsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 390 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... | |
 | Winston Groom - History - 2007 - 348 pages
...to the Marines, but not to me, who have seen these things. Having said all that, Sherman challenged, "If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it...in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity." For a moment, it might have seemed to Hood that Sherman was putting the blame on him personally for... | |
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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! 
