Quote#War
Who made this war? Already we find ourselves drifting toward new…
Quote byWilliam Tecumseh Sherman · 1820–1891
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to James Guthrie (August 1864).
English (original)
who made this war? Already we find ourselves drifting toward new issues, and are beginning to forget the strong facts of the beginning. You know and I know that long before the North, or the Federal Government, dreamed of war the South had seized the U.S. arsenals, forts, mints, and custom-houses, and had made prisoners of war of the garrisons sent at their urgent demand to protect them
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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