You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
William T. Sherman, Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

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But Mr Sherman!
Lincoln was the one who decided to invade. He alone decided to take the path of invasion.

Sherman was an open bare faced idolator who worshipped some fanciful notion of the nation as some demigod.
That is what drove him and many others to justify their war crimes in their own perverse darkened minds.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.