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

The army fanned out widely, covering a sixty mile span from

that plan Grant had insisted that Confederate armies were

the first and foremost objectives for Union strategy. What

buildings, and people. Bridges, railroads, machine shops,

This army was remembered as a lean and strong one. The

to the sea." On November 15, 1864, Sherman began his

Sherman was too brutal and cruel during the march to the

as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning

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