Why is Sherman so quotable?
I don't really like the guy, but you always knew what his opinion was!
“I don’t see why we can’t have some sense about negros, as well as horses, mules, iron, copper…but say N--g-r in the U.S. and from Sumner to Abby Kelley the whole country goes crazy…I like n--g-rs well enough as n--g-rs, but when fools and idiots try to make n--g-rs better than ourselves, I have a opinion.
Gen W. T. Sherman to Wm. M. McPherson letter, Sept. 1864
Sherman obviously thought more of the Country as a whole, than about slaves…
Kevin Dally