William Tecumseh Sherman: War Is Hell — The Complete Ebook
His father named him for the enemy. Tecumseh — the great Shawnee leader who built a confederacy of nations to stop the young American republic in its tracks — was the name an Ohio judge laid on his infant son in 1820, half in admiration for a worthy foe. The boy grew up fatherless and poor, and by his fortieth birthday he had failed at nearly everything the world offered him: a stagnating peacetime army, a San Francisco bank ruined in the panic of 1857, a Kansas law practice that went nowhere. Then came the war he alone among American generals seemed to have truly imagined in advance — he had written to Southern friends in 1860, in detail, exactly what it would cost them — and the failed man became the Union's most clear-eyed instrument of victory.
This biography follows the whole arc: the orphan taken in by a great Ohio family and sent to West Point; the young officer in Seminole Florida and Gold Rush California; the Louisiana seminary superintendent who loved the South and resigned rather than serve its secession; the Kentucky commander whose demand for 200,000 men was prophetic and got him branded a madman in the newspapers; the redemption beside Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga; the Hundred Days to Atlanta; and the decision that made him immortal and infamous — cutting loose from his supply lines and marching 62,000 men across Georgia to the sea, living off the land — before the Carolinas, Johnston's surrender, and the famous refusal to be made president. The prophet, the madman of the headlines, and the old soldier whose bitterest enemy walked bareheaded behind his coffin.
Inside this biography:
Chapter 1: The Orphan of Lancaster (1820–1840)
Chapter 2: The Soldier of the Old Army (1840–1853)
Chapter 3: The Failure (1853–1859)
Chapter 4: The Prophet of Louisiana (1859–1861)
Chapter 5: Bull Run and the Madman (1861)
Chapter 6: Shiloh (1862)
Chapter 7: Vicksburg (1862–1863)
Chapter 8: Chattanooga and the Western Armies (1863–1864)
Chapter 9: The Hundred Days (1864)
Chapter 10: The Decision (1864)
Chapter 11: The March (1864)
Chapter 12: The Christmas Gift (1864)
Chapter 13: The Carolinas and the Reckoning (1865)
Chapter 14: Commanding General (1866–1883)
Chapter 15: The Shermanesque Statement (1883–1891)
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