William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

“Neither you nor any set of men have a right ... Deeper knowledge of William Sherman and of armed conflict will better equip leaders in the West to confront the true nature of future war.

Stanley, William Tecumseh Sherman was the ... However, the West Point graduate didn't always seem a likely choice for fame. Sherman's career history was as hilly as the streets in his first ...

William Tecumseh ... and that’s what set them apart." Sherman was born in the home in 1820 and lived there until his father died when the future West Point cadet and U.S. Army legend, one ...

General William Tecumseh ... Grant’s memoirs. Sherman, a West Point graduate, was superintendent of a military school in Louisiana when South Carolina seceded in 1861, setting the war in motion.

In late 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman launched a 285-mile campaign from Atlanta to Savannah that would become one of the most infamous operations in American military history. With 62,000 ...

William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta ... him to rescind the evacuation order, but Sherman—then commanding the Union’s Army of the West—politely refused and explained why.

During the Civil War, Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops arrived in Savannah, Georgia, days before Christmas in 1864. The city was their final stop on Sherman's March to the ...

William Tecumseh Sherman is ... Grant’s memoirs. Sherman, a West Point graduate, was superintendent of a military school in Louisiana when South Carolina seceded in 1861, setting the war in motion.

General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among the items that will be open to bidders at Fleischer’s Auctions.