William Tecumseh Sherman and His March to the Sea
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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...
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