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campaign, saying to General Sherman as Commander of the United States Army, “If you want peace, you must teach your white neighbors to deal justly with us.”
If war simply means killing, and is nothing more than to do the greatest and speediest harm to the enemy, then its modern methods are indefensible, and the giving and taking of quarter a false refinement.
Claverhouse taught the maxim that “war is war,” and invested the story of Glencoe with a tragic interest and at which history will never cease to blush.
The order to depopulate Atlanta was obeyed amid agonies and sorrows indescribable, and the city, but for the presence of the soldiers who had captured it, was as desolate as the ruins of Nineveh.
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