 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - 1925 - 844 sider
...a reunion of Civil war veterans and ex-prisoners of the war. In the course of his remarks he said : "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, war is all hell." General Sherman was married May 1, 1850, to Ellen Ewing, daughter of Thomas and Ellen... | |
 | Walter Millis - 1981 - 388 sider
...the past and you [the veterans in the throng] can tell what books cannot.... There is many a boy here who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all...generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come I am here. The audience cheered his statement that in need he would be "here";... | |
 | Bathroom Readers' Institute, Joyce L. Vedral - 1990 - 228 sider
...Storch. The Quote: "War is hell." — William T. Sherman The Truth: The Union general really said, "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell." The Quote: "He who hesitates is lost." — -Joseph Addison The Truth: The original line from his play... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 sider
...man. — Sallust, first century BC The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. — George Orwell There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. — General William T. Sherman ... it is all too obvious that if we do not abolish war on this earth,... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - 1993 - 744 sider
...down to the practical realities just. OH they happened. You all know this is riot soldiering here. There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, hut, boys, itisajl hell. You can bear (his warning voice to generations yet to come. I IOOK upon war... | |
 | John Limon - 1994 - 266 sider
...Sherman almost said, "War is Hell." What he in fact told a reunion of veterans in Columbus is that "there is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."1 The remark seems not to be prescriptive. Sherman does not say or mean: "Make war Hell." He... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...Scandal An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! 10705 SHERMAN William 1820-1891 10734 10735 (defining courage) A perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1999 - 337 sider
...Macmillan, 1905-1907), 9: 74. 2. At a Grand Army of the Republic convention in 1880, Sherman said, "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as...bear this warning voice to generations yet to come." In repetitions by others, the observation was shortened to the more pithy and famous comment, "war... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes, Everette Beach Long - 1999 - 532 sider
...1880, in reporting a speech of Sherman's to a veteran's group Aug. 11, 1880. He is quoted as saying "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell." Later he did not remember that he said this, but agreed he might have. Sherman himself thought the... | |
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. 
