![]() He recovered by forging a close partnership with General Ulysses S. Stationed in Kentucky, his pessimism about the outlook of the war led to a nervous breakdown that required him to be briefly put on leave. ![]() Sherman distinguished himself at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 before being transferred to the Western Theater. He interrupted his military career in 1853 to pursue private business ventures, and at the outbreak of the Civil War he was superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy (now Louisiana State University). Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was "the first modern general".īorn in Ohio to a politically prominent family, Sherman graduated in 1840 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. British military theorist and historian B. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), receiving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. ![]() William Tecumseh Sherman (/tɛˈkʌmsə/ te-KUM-sə Febru– February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. ![]()
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