William T. Sherman

This war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land from us without price."

--Spotted Tail

The report and journal of proceedings of the commission appointed to obtain certain concessions from the Sioux Indians, December 26,…

This photograph of General William T. Sherman was taken by Civil War photographer Matthew Brady between 1860 and 1865. Sherman was one of the foremost Union generals who helped lead the Union Army to victory against the Confederates during The Civil War. 

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Surprised and almost overwhelmed, he stubbornly refused to admit defeat. His cool conduct saved his army and his job</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">So spoke the Union general a few minutes after he was shot in the crowded lobby of a hotel in Louisville. His killer, a fellow general and subordinate, never regretted the deed—and never paid for it</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A newly discovered Union diary shows that Sherman’s march was about as Ruthless as Southerners have always said it was</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Westmoreland and Sharon embarked on costly lawsuits to justify their battlefield judgments. They might have done much better to listen to Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war’s end, the hard-won compromises between soldiers and journalists may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In the quiet luxury of the historic district, a unique form of house plan—which goes back two hundred years—is a beguiling surprise for a visitor</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Extraordinary correspondence, never published before, takes us inside the mind of a military genius. Here is William Tecumseh Sherman in the heat of action inventing modern warfare, grieving the death of his little boy, struggling to hold Kentucky with levies, rolling invincibly across Georgia, and—always—battling the newspapermen whose stories, he believes, are killing his soldiers.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Lee. Grant. Jackson. Sherman. Thomas. Yes, George Henry Thomas belongs in that company. The trouble is that he and Grant never really got along.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Once the South was beaten, Eastern and Western troops of the Union army resented each other so violently that some feared for the survival of the victorious government. Then, the tension disappeared in one happy stroke that gave the United States its grandest pageant, and General Sherman the proudest moment of his life.</span></p>

<p><span class="body">Without my crooked ancestor, Grant would never have written his magnificent account of the Civil War.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The great emancipator and the liberator of Kuwait get together in the newest White House portrait.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THE VISITORS WHO COME HERE FOR THE OLYMPICS this summer won’t find Tara. What they will find is a city facing an unusual and sometimes painful past with clarity of vision and generosity of spirit.</span></p>