023: William Tecumseh Sherman

“There is many-a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” —William Tecumseh Sherman
“There is many-a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” —William Tecumseh Sherman

The actual origin of “War is hell.”

 

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