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William Tecumseh Sherman was a great asset towards the union winning the civil war. General Sherman's many smaller victories brought him to the height in his military career, the Atlanta campaign. Some say that Sherman's great march to the sea was purely barbaric. However this march was an important factor causing the south to be unable to muster enough strength to win or ever rise again. William Tecumseh Sherman was born on May 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was educated at West Point in 1840 and graduated sixth in his class. After his graduation he became a staff officer in San Francisco during the Mexican War, and he received a brevet for meritorious service. Sherman resigned from the army in 1853 and became a partner in a banking firm in San Francisco. After his banking endeavors met success he was offered the job as the president of the Military College in Louisiana. Sherman presided over Louisiana Military School from 1859-1861. There was a lot of talk of the secess!ion from the Union running wild. At this point Sherman was living in the south on January 18,1861, Sherman resigned his position stating that he "preferred to maintain his allegiance to the Constitution as long as a fragment of it survived" (me
s and Georgia. For the most part Sherman out flanked and out maneuvered the Rebel army. "Hood was complaining of his position and how he didn't think he could hold it. When Polk joined in, Johnston became provoked and decided to retreat if two of his three corp. commanders believed they were defeated before the battle had even begun" (www.webcom.com). Sherman had the southern commanders absolutely terrified. Many believed that he was crazy and many others just respected him for his overall military genius At this point General Johnston was leading the army that Sherman was fighting. After a few skirmishes the president of the South, Jefferson Davis ordered that Johnston be relieved of command and be replaced by General Hood. Sherman pressed Hood all the way back to Atlanta and on his way there he released all the black slaves and many chose to join and fight with the North. Sherman also applied his "Total War" tactics through Georgia causing much distress among the general pop! The Bobbs & Merrill Company: Boston, 1950 By Bonny Boys in Blue.(Burt) "In thee the country's hope is placed, The Boys in Blue the foe have faced, nd of the war. This also proves how Sherman moved his man through Carolina was not a barbaric act but an act of supreme mercy. By pillaging South Carolina it caused the war to be cut shorter and in the end it saved lives that would have been uselessly wasted. After Sherman got through the Carolinas he continued his course to Atlanta and then on to the sea. "Sherman had realized the secret to making the war as short as possible and he was acting upon it"(Foote). "Since the Civil War was a war between free peoples, Sherman maintained that only by breaking the war spirit of the enemy, noncombatant as well as combatant, could victory be won-hence the march through Georgia and South Carolina. His famous statement, "War is all hell" epitomizes his sentiments" (www.webcom.com). I think that he succeeded in breaking the spirit of the Rebel army causing the war to end sooner than it would have if Sherman hadn't been there. Sherman fought several battles between the Carolina'! Peoria, Burt War Songs Poems and Odes, Illinois 1909 http://www.webcom.com/crumbley/sherman.html rooms of our house day and night. At our house, they killed every chicken, goose, turkey, cow, calf and every living thing, even our pet dog. They took from old men, women and children alike, every garment of wearing apparel save what we had on. Such as it did not suit them to take away they tore to pieces before our eyes"(www.webcom.com). This made it so that the Rebel soldiers wanted to come home sooner to protect their own. Sherman
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