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William T. Sherman was one of the most successful Union generals in the Civil War. [manuscripts] in possession of Walter L. Fleming, Nashville, Tenn." Fleming's collection is now in the archives of Louisiana State University.Letter by W.T.

Steven E. Woodworth, See, William T. Sherman papers, Notre Dame University CSHR 19/67 Folder:Roger Sherman's Watch 1932–1942One 19th-century source, for example, states that "General Sherman, we believe, is the only eminent American named from an Indian chief."

I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting—its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers ... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.In June 1865, two months after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, General Sherman received his first postwar command, originally called the Military Division of the Mississippi, later the One of Sherman's main concerns in postwar commands was to protect the construction and operation of the railroads from attack by hostile Indians. See Marszalek, pp. This was an important triumph, because Atlanta was a railroad hub and the industrial center of the Confederacy: It had munitions factories, foundries and warehouses that kept the Confederate army supplied with food, weapons and other goods. Capturing Atlanta in 1864, William Sherman conducted a scorched earth march to Savannah. Vol. Factories, farms and railroads provided Confederate troops with the things they needed, he reasoned; and if he could destroy those things, the Confederate war effort would collapse.

The edition most useful for research purposes is the 1990 Library of America version, edited by Charles Royster.

The first stamp issue to honor him was released on March 21, 1893, a little more than two years after his death.

712–14, 727–29.December 11, 1872 deposition, Mixed Commission, XIV, 91, quoted in Marion B. Lucas, Quoted in Liddell Hart, p. 402.

By the 1880s, however, Southern "Lost Cause" writers began to demonize Sherman for his attacks on civilians in the "March". Thus, this virtually invisible edition of Sherman's memoirs is actually the most comprehensive version.

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His conduct and deportment toward us characterized him as a friend and a gentleman.Although the context is often overlooked, and the quotation usually chopped off, one of Sherman's statements about his hard-war views arose in part from the racial attitudes summarized above.

The city was undefended when they got there.

In one amusing change to his text, Sherman dropped the assertion that Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army. War is a terrible thing! His father gave him his unusual middle name as a nod to the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, a magnetic leader who built a confederacy of Ohio The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing At the Battle of Nashville, which took place from December 15 to December 16, 1864, during the American Civil War (1861-65), the once powerful Confederate Army of Tennessee was nearly destroyed when a Union army commanded by General George Thomas (1816-70) swarmed over the Rebel With the Confederacy on its last legs, Grant invited Lincoln to visit his headquarters in City Point (now Hopewell), Virginia, situated along the James River just a few miles from the front.
Missing from this edition is the useful biographical material contained in the 1891 Johnson and Blaine editions.

190–204; McPherson, pp. The logistical brilliance on fiery display during Sherman’s March to the Sea In the summer of 1864, during the U.S. Civil War (1861-65), Union General William T. Sherman faced off against Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and John B.

His son, Sherman's birth family was Presbyterian and he was originally baptized as such. Rising to prominence under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Sherman served as an effective corps commander before being given overall command in the West. Sherman burned through the city, and, with 60,000 men, began his famous The general who marched through Georgia during the Sherman retired from the army on February 8, 1884, and lived most of the rest of his life in New York City.



But, as regards kindness to the race ..., I assert that no army ever did more for that race than the one I commanded at Savannah.Sherman's greatest contribution to the war, the strategy of Sherman's advance through Georgia and South Carolina was characterized by widespread destruction of civilian supplies and infrastructure.

Although he was impatient, often irritable and depressed, petulant, headstrong, and unreasonably gruff, he had solid soldierly qualities. President He was an ideal soldier, and shared to the fullest the esprit du corps of the army, but he cherished the civil institutions organized under the Constitution, and was only a soldier that these might be perpetuated in undiminished usefulness and honor.On February 19, a funeral service was held at his home, followed by a military procession.


The engraving was modeled after a "General Sherman" redirects here. He later began a new climb to success at Shiloh and Corinth under Grant. He led Union forces in crushing campaigns through the South, marching through Georgia and the Carolinas (1864–65).



In studies I always held a respectable reputation with the professors, and generally ranked among the best, especially in drawing, chemistry, mathematics, and natural philosophy.

Sherman had targeted Arkansas Post independently and considered the operation there worthwhile.