1. 15:51 19th Jan 2012

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    Reblogged from motherjones

    Tags: history

    motherjones: After he said stuff like “War is hell” and introduced the bed-head hairstyle, General William Tecumseh Sherman appears to have become a lover, not a fighter. According to an 1886 magazine, the retired general’s “specialty is in kissing young women, of which he has probably done more than any living American.” Another account has him telling President Ulysses S. Grant, “You may drive your fast horses and I will kiss all the pretty girls! Ha! ha! that shall be my fad.” For more on American historical figures kissing unsuspecting victims, see here.

    motherjones:

    After he said stuff like “War is hell” and introduced the bed-head hairstyle, General William Tecumseh Sherman appears to have become a lover, not a fighter. According to an 1886 magazine, the retired general’s “specialty is in kissing young women, of which he has probably done more than any living American.” Another account has him telling President Ulysses S. Grant, “You may drive your fast horses and I will kiss all the pretty girls! Ha! ha! that shall be my fad.” For more on American historical figures kissing unsuspecting victims, see here.

     
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      be associating it with this hair, I will love the name George
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      I’d make out with
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      Step 1: Burn down half of Georgia Step 2: Fight back the bitches with a stick
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      burned a lot of shit, but for this statement, Sherman gets into...“History’s monsters who...
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      I will reblog all the Godzilla pictures! That will be my fad.
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      one who said that… whatever General Sherman..
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      “Cleveland and Harrison were not not the only chief executives to eschew baby-kissing. In May 1903, a correspondent for...