1 of 7 | A bust of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman can be seen between the vaults at Grant's Tomb in New York City.

On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began ...

He became a rancher in northern California, and when he stumbled upon the massive tree, he chose to name it after the great general he had fought under, General William Tecumseh Sherman.

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...

In March 1864, William T. Sherman assumed command of the Union Army in the West, and in May, he began a destructive march ...

Alton High's Redbirds football team achieved a perfect 10-0 season in 1970, winning the Southwestern Illinois Conference ...

Elmira, NY, has written several other book in the Emerging Civil War series. This study of Sherman began while he was an undergraduate at SUNY Cortland, 25 years ago, when he began to view the general ...

Hated across the South but a hero to the North, William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta in record time and lay waste to the Georgia and South Carolina countryside on his 1864 “March to the Sea.” ...