News from hell by noon?
Tecumseh?
General Sherman.
Defamed as “insane” by the newspapers, Sherman responded in kind, calling his tormenters a “set of dirty newspaper scribblers who have the impudence of Satan.” In keeping with that theme of eternal damnation, he reacted with undisguised glee on being (erroneously) told one morning that three journalists had been killed by shellfire. “That’s good!” he said, “Now we’ll have dispatches from hell before breakfast.”