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William Tecumseh Sherman

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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William Tecumseh Sherman is criticizing journalists for taking unverified gossip from a place and presenting it as if it were true information. He compares them to spies because they gather secret or private details without permission and then expose them publicly.

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