What one reviewer said about Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman, William S. McFeely:
This book is probably the most fasinating biography I have read. Sherman was an talented outsider whose abilty won the civil war. The book begins with Shermans early military career and civilain life before the civil war. Sherman crisscrosses the content to support his family and becomes a Dean of students, a surveyor, a banker, a rail road man and a partener in a law firm. All these skills and travels blend together to make a master stragist and leader.
Sherman was a man always moving to survive. His plan of attack was to move quickly to destroy property and save lives of his men as well as those of the enemy. He stood for loyality and a chain of command, yet was willing to congole the president and U S Grant into allowing him to march through Goergia and the Carolinas while living off the land.
This is an analytical story of stragidty and passionate story of a man who was unwilling to slaughter men and instead destroyed the means to war.
All war is hell. WT Sherman
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