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William T Sherman

            
             William Tecumseh Sherman was born on February 8, 1820 in the town of Lancaster, Ohio. When Sherman was nine years old his father died. Sherman was then raised by Senator Thomas Ewing and wound up marrying into the family. Senator Ewing was able to use his influence to obtain an appointment to West Point for Sherman. Sherman finished fifth in his class and was appointed to the artillery division of the army. He did very well during his stay in the army, but resigned his commission in 1853 with a rank of captain.
             Sherman had trouble adjusting back to civilian life. After his army days Sherman moved between California and Kansas. He tried to start businesses in the banking and law fields only to fail at those. In 1859 Sherman became a superintendent of a military academy (LSU) but resigned this job with Louisiana's.
             secession of state. He then went to head a streetcar company in St. Louis before he determined that private life was not for him and volunteered for the Union Army. .
             Sherman's first command as a volunteer was leading a brigade of volunteers of the 1st division. He led the division across Bull Run to help the 2nd and 3rd divisions. For his bravery, Sherman was promoted to a brigadier general. Sherman was sent to Kentucky to aide Robert Anderson; Anderson was the hero of Fort Sumter. Sherman got himself in trouble by overestimating the enemy's strength and for his actions was called insane by the local newspapers.
             During the battle for Fort Henry and Donelson, Sherman was in charge of sending reinforcements to Grant. It was at this time Sherman and Grant began their relationship. Grant praised the work of Sherman and was made a major general of the volunteers. At one point Grant was thinking of leaving the army, but after a talk with Sherman, Grant decided to stay.
             When the fighting started at Vicksburg, Sherman ordered a failed assault at Chickasaw Bluff. After this failure, John A McCiernand replaced Sherman.


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1. William Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman was born on February 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. His father died when he was very young and his mom couldn't take care of him and he brother so she sent William to live with his father's friend, Thomas Ewing. William lived there and eventually married Thomas's daughter. A few years later, William went to the ... Military Academy at Alexandria, Louisiana. After the war, the school moved to Baton Rouge and became known as Louisiana State University (LSU). In 1861, William resigned and went back to Ohio, where he was born, and then brought his family to Missouri where he ...

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2. William T Sherman

William T. Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, as the son of Charles Sherman, a state judge, and Mary Hoyt. His father died when Sherman was nine years old, leaving the family with no other source of income to live on. Sherman grew up in the family of Thomas Ewing, a noted politician, and Maria Boyle ... from 1840 to 1842. At Fort Morgan in Mobile, Alabama in 1842, and Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina from 1842-1846, Sherman became incredibly familiar with the people and geography of the south, two areas of knowledge that were to influence his military ca...

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3. The Glory of William Tecumseh Sherman

William T. Sherman was a true hero of the Civil War. He was able to destroy the South's strategic, economic, and psychological ability to wage war. This was also referred to as Sherman's "scorched earth " policy. Sherman's greatest contribution to military tactics is his development of 'Total Warfare' As his army marched through ... He ordered his men to the best of his ability and taught them everything he could. In Source #1 one line spoke such greatness of Sherman, "In all foraging, of whatever kind, the parties engaged will refrain from abusive or threatening language, and may, where the o...

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4. Sherman

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman made one of the most brilliant decisions of the American Civil War. In November and December 1964, Sherman and more than 62,000 Union troops marched from Atlanta to Savannah in Georgia, devastating the countryside, towns and cities. Sherman aimed to "make Georgia howl" - he wanted to make the Southern civilians hate war so thoroughly that they would never want ... to fight another once this one ended. And if Sherman's men destroyed Southern food supplies, factories, and morale, they would be doing deep damage to the Confederate army, while not actually k...

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5. Sherman

... it is necessary to view all aspects of the conflict exactly as they were and not pander to the fickle nature of memory and remembrance. To William T. Sherman, the war was not about slaves, or cotton, or even states rights "it was about righting a wrong of epic magnitude. The South ... there was no intention to remove slavery from the areas in which it existed "only to prevent it from spreading across the Mississippi. Sherman's opinion represents that of the average citizen, without differentiating between Northern or Southern. The truth of the issue stands that before the war, ... nati...

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6. Sherman

... were: 1. Opposition to the concentration of economic power in large corporations 2. Business concerns. The act was based on the constitutional power of the Congress to regulate interstate commerce. The Sherman Act also declared illegal every contract, combination (in the form of trust or otherwise), or conspiracy in restraint of interstate and foreign trade. A fine of $5,000 and imprisonment for ... employed by President Taft in 1911 against the Standard Oil trust and the American Tobacco Company. In the Wilson administration the Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) was enacted to supplement the...

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7. American Civil War

... not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In view of this destruction, it is understandable that Sherman quoted "war is hell" (Sherman, William T.,Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Finally, on December 20, Sherman's men reached the city of Savannah and from there Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 ... heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton" (Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwoo...

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8. The American Civil War

... not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In view of this destruction, it is understandable that Sherman quoted "war is hell" (Sherman, William T.,Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Finally, on December 20, Sherman's men reached the city of Savannah and from there Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 ... heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton" (Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwoo...

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9. American Civil War

... not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In view of this destruction, it is understandable that Sherman quoted "war is hell" (Sherman, William T.,Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Finally, on December 20, Sherman's men reached the city of Savannah and from there Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 ... heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton" (Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwoo...

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