Whenever the motives and causes of the war, the beginning and end of which I have seen, are brought into question, I must stand, as I have always stood, upon the firm conviction that it was a causeless rebellion, made with bad motives, and that all men who led in that movement were traitors to their country.
Sherman asserts his belief that the Civil War was a rebellion without just cause, labeling its leaders as traitors.
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