We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.


Letter to Henry WHalleck [December 24,1864]


We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.