William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 - 1891) - Union Army General in American Civil War + Commanding General of US Army 1869 - 1883.
Portrait photo circa 1860s of American soldier William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 - 1891). Sherman served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War and is remembered for his military strategy and "scorched earth" or "total war" approach to the conflict. Regarded by many as "the first modern general", Sherman served under General Ulysses S Grant in 1862 and 1863 and subsequently became the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He captured the city of Atlanta in September 1864 and then undertook his famous "March to the sea" - sweeping across Georgia during November and December 1864 and capturing the port of Savannah. Sherman then marched up through the Carolinas before accepting the surrender of Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida in April 1865. Sherman became Commanding General of the US Army in 1869 when Grant became President and was responsible for army conduct in the Indian Wars in the western USA for the next 15 years. Photo by Mathew B Brady.
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