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The Sherman letters; correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, ed. by Rachel Sherman Thorndike. With portraits. by Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891; Sherman, John, 1823-1900; Thorndike, Rachel Sherman, 1861-1919, ed is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general". Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. He accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carol

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Author

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891; Sherman, John, 1823-1900; Thorndike, Rachel Sherman, 1861-1919, ed

Publisher

C. Scribner's Sons, 1894.

Published

1894

Language

EN

ISBN

9780404046262

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir