Sherman wants to 'march to the sea, while the world looks on and wonders.' He wants to desolate the land and burn up your towns, to show what a coward he is, and how dastardly, and one of our boys wants to write a piece of poetry about it.

But that ain't all, Johnny.

You know that you fellows have got a great deal of cotton at Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, and other places, and cotton is worth two dollars a pound in gold, and as Christmas is coming, we want to go down there for some of that cotton to make a Christmas gift to old Abe and old Clo, don't you see?
O, no, Johnny, we don't want to end the war just yet awhile.

The sugar is mighty sweet in the teat, and we want to suck a while longer.

Why, sir, we want to rob and then burn every house in Georgia and South Carolina.