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 ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as previously portrayed but a freedom movement that led to a great ...

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 ...

in January 1865 General William Tecumseh Sherman rested his army in Savannah and received fresh supplies from the Union Navy, letting Confederate commanders guess what his next move would be.

The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. In March ...

In 1865, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, which promised newly freed Black people “40 acres and a mule” to help them build a new life. In 1865 ...