 | Manning Ferguson Force - Generals - 1899 - 404 pages
...of services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible. You can not qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you can not refine it, and those who brought war on our country deserve all the curses and maledictions... | |
 | Manning Ferguson Force - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 406 pages
...services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible. You can not quality war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you can not refine it, and those who brought war on our country deserve all the curses and maledictions... | |
 | Thomas H. Martin - Atlanta (Ga.) - 1902 - 750 pages
...renew my offer of services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into this country, deserve all the curse and maledictions that a people can... | |
 | Edward Robins - Generals - 1905 - 406 pages
...my offer of services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible. Ton 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... | |
 | Myrta Lockett Avary - Reconstruction - 1906 - 524 pages
...yet shall not revoke my orders, because they were not designed to meet the humanities of the case. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." " The order to depopulate Atlanta was obeyed amid agonies and sorrows indescribable," Colonel JH Keatley,... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 436 pages
...I rather think he will change his mind before he is done." 1 In this correspondence, Sherman wrote: "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." (Memoirs, II, 126.) Before Sherman's death in 1891, the more familiar saying, "War is hell," began... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1927 - 606 pages
...civilians to leave the city, an order that led to an acrimonious correspondence with Hood. Sherman wrote: "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." Hood's army had been driven from Atlanta, but, though greatly weakened, it was still hovering intact... | |
 | Geography - 1918 - 596 pages
...leave. The civil officials protested, which led to the oft-repeated saying ascribed to him, "War is hell." What he actually said was "You cannot qualify...pan of the camp is more than seven miles from the heart of the city, all of it except the maneuver grounds, indeed, lying close to the five-mile line... | |
 | Russell F. Weigley - History - 1977 - 612 pages
...war reflected his stark belief that "war is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact": "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."53 8. Annihilation of a People: The Indian Fighters I want you to be bold, enterprising, and at... | |
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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. 
