William Tecumseh Sherman (/ tɪˈkʌmsə / tih-KUM-sə; [3][4] – ) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.
William Tecumseh Sherman, American Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare.
Some have claimed that Sherman was a war criminal, authorizing plunder and looting of civilian property. But the matter is more complex than either of these charges indicate. In fact, Sherman’s actions were the culmination of a Union policy toward civilians that evolved during the course of the war.
Praised for his revolutionary ideas on "total warfare," William T. Sherman died in 1891. This is a biography of the Civil War Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman.
A strong Unionist, Sherman volunteered for duty in the United States Army in May 1861. Initially appointed colonel of the 13th Infantry Regiment, Sherman led a brigade of inexperienced troops at First Bull Run (First Manassas) before being transferred to the Western theater.
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William T. Sherman was an officer in the army, who rose from humble beginnings to prominence as a commanding officer in the Union Army during the Civil War, and close friends with Ulysses S. Grant. Sherman led his forces on a march across the Southern states, destroying everything in his path.
Sherman, one of America’s greatest war heroes, returned to the U.S. Army to fight the Civil War, and his service in the “War of Rebellion” was memorialized by San Franciscans who named a street, and an elementary school, on Union Street, in his honor.