In a September 17, 1863, letter to the War Department, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman wrote: “The United States has the right, and … the … power, to penetrate to every part of the national domain. We will remove and destroy every obstacle — if need be, take every life, every acre of land, every particle of property, everything that to us seems proper.” President Lincoln liked Sherman’s letter so much that he declared that it should be published.
[borrowed from http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/11/19/gettysburg-adress-still-balderdash-after-150-years/]
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