finally if you scroll through this entry, the words related to general william t. sherman tags at the bottom include "collateral damage, modern warfare, furd, tmurder, terrori war criminal." now let me little a more modest and fair here. this is not the best source out there on sherman. it was written by somebody named text in tex. it was written and misquotes sherman at one point. and i'll always concede it does also include war hero. but what this does represent is a popularly held view that william t. sherman and the march through georgia and the carolinas during the finally months of the civil war have something to do with the creation of total war. and the millions of civilian deaths in the wars of the 20th and 21st century can somehow be laid at his feet. nor does this view reside entirely on the internet, noted repository of kind of crack pot theories. a history of henry county georgia explains sherman's march to the sea was the first hint of the content of total war which was to come to full fruition during the second world war in which civilian infrastructure is c

finally, if you scroll through this entry, the words related to general william t. shermangs at the bottom include collateral damage, modern warfare, murder, terrorist and war criminal. now let me be a little bit honest and fair here. this is not the best source out there on sherman. it was written by somebody named tex in tex, and it misquotes sherman at one point and i'll also concede that if you look at the word association tag line it does also include war hero, but what this does represent is a really popularly-held view that william t. sherman and the march through georgia and the carolinas during the final months of the civil war have something to do with the creation of total war, and the millions of civilian deaths in the wars of the 20th and 21st century can somehow be laid at his feet. nor does this view reside entirely on the internet, noted repository of kind of crackpot theories. a history of henry county georgia explained simply that, quote, sherman's march to the sea was the first hint of the concept of total war which was to come to full fruition during the

i would highly, highly recommend sherman civil war, the selected correspondence of william t. sherman. brook simpson, who is on the faculty here is one of the co-editors of that. throughout the atlanta campaign, sherman largely avoided launching frontal attacks against his entrenched opponent. instead, what he repeatedly did was utilize maneuver, flanking movements, to rest the confederates from strong defensive positions. i think sherman's greatness also derives from his mastery of logistics. keeping an enormous field army supplied day after day after day, very deep in enemy territory. sherman's army numbered over 100,000 men. it had 28,000 horses. 33,000 mules. imagine trying to supply an army of that size, day after day after day. the only way to do it, of course, was via railroads. sherman, in the months leading up to the campaign, which began in may 1864, had hundreds and hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through kentucky and tennessee, stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. and chattanooga alone, between the months of march and may of 1864, there are 145 r

i would highly, highly recommend sherman civil war, the selected correspondence of william t. sherman. it's one of the most important edited volumes in many decades. brook simpson, who is on the faculty here is one of the co-editors of that. throughout the atlanta campaign, sherman largely avoided launching frontal attacks against his entrenched opponent. instead, what he repeatedly did was utilize maneuver, flanking movements, to rest the confederates from strong defensive positions. i think sherman's greatness also derives from his mastery of logistics. keeping an enormous field army supplied day after day after day, very deep in enemy territory. sherman's army numbered over 100,000 men. it had 28,000 horses. 33,000 mules. imagine trying to supply an army of that size, day after day after day. the only way to do it, of course, was via railroads. sherman, in the months leading up to the campaign, which began in may 1864, had hundreds and hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through kentucky and tennessee, stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. and chattanooga alon

william t. sherman had good things to say about johnston in his memoirs published in 1875. grant said i worried more when joe johnston was in command in front of my army than when robert e. lee was. i don't know if grant actually said that or not, but if he did, that alone should take his reputation down many notches. because among other things, johnston almost never commanded troops in front of grant's army. only for a few weeks in january and february 1864 did johnston command troops in front of grant and those troops that time sat in their winter quarters and had snowball battles with each other. i don't know why grant was so worried. johnston's men are attacking with snowballs. we have to worry about that. johnston benefited from a lot of the early writing about the war. one of the early prolific historians was edward a. pollard, a richmond journalist who absolutely hated jefferson davis and pollard was writing books almost by the month -- i mean almost as furiously as brian does here. just books vomiting out of edward a. pollard. in which he denounced jefferson davis i

william t. sherman had good things to say about johnston in his memoirs published in 1875. grant said i worried more when joe johnston was in command in front of my army than when robert e. lee was. i t

i would highly, highly recommend sherman civil war, the selected correspondence of william t. sherman. brook simpson, who is on the faculty here is one of the co-editors of that. throughout the atlanta campaign, sherman largely avoided launching frontal attacks against his entrenched opponent. instead, what he repeatedly did was utilize maneuver, flanking movements, to rest the confederates from strong defensive positions. i think sherman's greatness also derives from his mastery of logistics. keeping an enormous field army supplied day after day after day, very deep in enemy territory. sherman's army numbered over 100,000 men. it had 28,000 horses. 33,000 mules. imagine trying to supply an army of that size, day after day after day. the only way to do it, of course, was via railroads. sherman, in the months leading up to the campaign, which began in may 1864, had hundreds and hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through kentucky and tennessee, stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. and chattanooga alone, between the months of march and may of 1864, there are 145 r

i would highly, highly recommend the collected correspondence of william t sherman, one of the most important edited volumes in many decades. brooks simpson, who is on the , is one of the coeditors of that. throughout the campaign, sherman largely avoided launching frontal attacks against his entrenched opponents. instead, what he repeatedly did was utilize and maneuver flanking movements to rest confederates from strong defensive positions. sherman's greatness also derives from his mastery of logistics. an enormous field army supply day after day, very deep in enemy territory. sherman's army numbered over 100,000 men. horses, 33,000 mules. imagine trying to supply an army of that size day after day after day. the only way to do it, of course, was via railroads. sherman, in the months leading up to the campaign which began in may, 1860 four, had hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through ,entucky and tennessee stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. in chattanooga alone, between the months of march and may 1864 there were 165 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. he

this is a letter of condolens from william t. sherman to john bell hood.ear general, my family is all in the allagheny mountains and i am here for breakfast a hotel nearby. even yet hours have passed i cannot help thinking of that wonderful and beautiful group of children you paraded before me last winter at your home in new orleans. so they did meet. and that you took my daughters lizzy and ellie up to see mrs. hood who was sick in her bed. i cannot banish the sight from my mind. and now write you the simple note to tell you that here in washington there is one that thinks of you and your bereavement and of those motherless children. i believe she will write you words of consolation at a loss that touches the heart more than a loss of a father. accept the assurance of my heart felt sympathy and great respect. truly your friend, william t. sherman. quite interesting. the sad thing is that hood never got it. he died on august 29. never got the letter of condolences. next to last one. of hood's 11 children, the youngest was anni. when mrs. hood died, she was