“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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