Sherman's March Quotes

“the last of the lordly planters who ruled this Southern world. His manners are unequalled still, but underneath this smooth exterior lies the grip of a tyrant whose will has never been crossed.… He came of a race that would brook no interference with their own sweet will by man, woman or devil …”
― Burke Davis, Sherman's March

“Among the eulogies raised to the departed general, the terse words of his friend Whitelaw Reid seemed to summarize most perceptively the mercurial Sherman: “He never acknowledged an error and never repeated it.”
― Burke Davis, Sherman's March

“if he had attended burial services for one of his bitter enemies, said, “No, I didn’t patronize the funeral, but I approve of it.”
― Burke Davis, Sherman's March