    
Title: William T. Sherman Description: William T. Sherman (William Tecumseh Sherman; February 8, 1820-February 14, 1891), American military officer (USMA, 1840), businessman, educator and author, and a Union major general during the Civil War, later becoming Commanding General of the Armies of the U.S (1869-1883); Sherman took command of the Western Theater in 1864 and conducted a ruthless but effective campaign that severed the South in his Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign, practicing a "scorched earth" strategy that won for him the recognition as the "first modern general," but one hated by the South where he was called "the Great Destroyer" Category: American Civil War Keywords: American Civil War, Atlanta Campaign (January-October 1864), Carolinas Campaign (January-April 1865), Federal generals, Federal officers, March to the Sea (November-December 1864), military leaders, Union generals, Union officers, War Against the South: War Between the States, War for the South, War for the Southern Confederacy, War for the Union, War of the Rebellion. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1800 x 1693 (3.05 MPixels) (1.06) Print Size: 15.2 x 14.3 cm; 6.0 x 5.6 inches File Size: 8.74 MB (9,168,918 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000260114 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
