General William T. Sherman (United States military leader, c. 1820-1891)
“Civil war was to be; and, now that it has come and gone, we can rest secure in the knowledge that as the chief cause, slavery, has been eradicated forever, it is not likely to come again.”
- From The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (Volume 1, Chapter 1) by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).
