William Tecumseh Sherman
United States Army general (1820-1891) · United States · Writers · Died at 71
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Something wrong?William Tecumseh Sherman was an American businessman, author, and United States Army general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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Sherman's childhood home is in Lancaster, Ohio.
Sherman is in military uniform as a youth.
Sherman Quarters is at 510 Calle Principal in Monterey, California.
This California Registered Historic Landmark plaque commemorates the location in Jackson Square, San Francisco, which Sherman directed from 1853 to 1857.![These cannons were used in the Battle of Fort Sumter and procured by Sherman for the university after the Civil War, and are displayed at the Military Science building at Louisiana State University.[59]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/LSUcannons_crop.jpg/500px-LSUcannons_crop.jpg)
These cannons were used in the Battle of Fort Sumter and procured by Sherman for the university after the Civil War, and are displayed at the Military Science building at Louisiana State University.[59]
Mathew Brady photographed Sherman, c. 1864.
George Peter Alexander Healy painted an oil portrait of Sherman in 1866.Family
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William Tecumseh Sherman was an American businessman, author, and United States Army general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). As a general he earned recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of his scorched-earth policies, which he implemented in his military campaign against the Confederate States.
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