There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

More from William Tecumseh Sherman

• If nominated by either party, I should preemptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
• War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
• War is hell.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.