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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman was born on
May 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was educated at the
U.S. Military Academy and later went on to become a
Union General in the U.S. civil war. Sherman resigned from
the army in 1853 and became a partner in a banking firm in
San Francisco. He became the president of the Military
College in Louisiana(now Louisiana state University) from
1859-1861. Sherman offered his services at the outbreak of
the Civil War in 1861 and was put in command of a
volunteer infantry regiment, becoming a brigadier general of
volunteers after the first Battle of bull run. He led his division
at the Battle of Shiloh and was then promoted to major
general of volunteers. Soon after Sherman fought in the
battle of Chattanooga he was made supreme commander of
the armies in the west. Sherman fought many battles with
such people as Ulysses S. Grant, and against people such as
Robert E. Lee before he was commissioned lieutenant
general of the regular army. Following Grants election to
presidency he was promoted to the rank of full general and
given command of the entire U.S. Army. William Sherman
published his personal memoirs in 1875, retired in 1883, and
died in 1891. William Tecumseh Sherman, as you have read,
was a very talented and very successful man. He is
remembered by many accomplishments, but probably most
remembered by his famous March to the sea. Sherman's
march to the sea was probably the most celebrated military
action, in which about sixty thousand men marched with
Sherman from Atlanta to the Atlantic ocean, then north
through South Carolina destroying the last of the souths
economic resources. Bedford Forrest was in Tennessee, and
with Atlanta secured, Sherman dispatched George H.
Thomas to Nashville to restore the order there. John B.
Hood threatened Thomas's supply line, and for about a
month, they both fought north of Atlanta. Sherman decided
to do the complete opposite of what the strategic plan laid
down by Grant six months earlier had proposed to do. In
that plan Grant had insisted that Confederate armies were
the first and foremost objectives for Union strategy. What
Sherman decided now was that he would completely ignore
the Confederate armies and go for the "spirit that sustained
the Confederate nation itself", the homes, the property, the
families, and the food of the Southern heartland. He would
march for Savannah, Georgia and the seacoast, abandoning
his own line of supply, and live off the land and harvests o...

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