Sherman Said It Undoubtedly Sherman said it.

This is my text and as illustration for my text I take the case of the town of La Buissiere.
The Germans took the town of La Buissiere after stiff fighting on August twenty-fourth.

I imagine that possibly there was a line in the dispatches telling of the fight there; but at that I doubt it, because on that same date a few miles away a real battle was raging between the English rear guard, under Sir John French, of the retreating army of the Allies, falling back into France, and the Germans.

Besides, in the sum total of this war the fall of La Buissiere hardly counts.

You might say it represents a semicolon in the story of the campaign.