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About this Collection. The papers of General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) span the years 1810-1897, with the bulk of the material originating between 1848 and 1891. They consist of approximately 18,000 items, most digitally scanned from 51 microfilm reels, although some correspondence and other materials in the Addition series which had ...
Der Medium Tank M4 (Sherman) ist ein mittlerer US-amerikanischer Panzer, der während des Zweiten Weltkrieges entwickelt und eingesetzt wurde. Er löste den M3 Lee/Grant ab. Konzipiert wurde der M4 für die Fertigung in großen Stückzahlen, kontinuierlich verbessert und in zahlreichen Ausführungen während des gesamten Krieges gefertigt, so dass er letztlich mit etwas weniger als 50.000 ...
11. Sept. 2021 · William T. Sherman got his middle name Sherman from a Shawnee Chief called Sherman. His father, a Ohio-based lawyer, was said to be big admirer of the Native American chief, hence he named his son Tecumseh. When Sherman was 9 years old, tragedy struck his large family as his father passed away. This left his mother in a dire situation of ...
2. Dez. 2018 · William Tecumseh Sherman would rise to command the Army of the Tennessee, and then Military Division of Mississippi, which placed all western Union armies under his command. These armies under his command would push south capturing Atlanta, Savannah, and the Carolinas. His “total war” policies are considered controversial, yet historians contend that they brought a much swifter end to the war.
Wherever Major General William T. Sherman’s troops went, they left fiery ruins behind them. It was all part of the North’s new approach to “hard war”. The neighboring towns of Enterprise, Marion Station, and Quitman were also hit by Federal burning parties, who consigned vast amounts of lumber and cotton to the flames.
I would recommend "Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order" by John F. Marszalek (Free Press, 1993) as the best biography. "Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea" by Noah Andre Trudeau (Harper Collins, 2008) is an excellent account of the campaign from Atlanta to Savannah. 2.
30 Best William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes. I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman.
