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.” ...

After taking Atlanta, Sherman then led his famous “March to ... it is conceivable that the North would not have won the Civil War and that the Union would not have been preserved,” said ...

Sherman’s investment of Atlanta. Because Hood failed, the fall of Atlanta became inevitable, and the seizure of Atlanta ensured the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln, which meant that Union ...

Elmira, NY, has written several other book in the Emerging Civil War series. This study of Sherman began while he was an undergraduate ... while being hailed for his Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and ...

He served briefly as the head of a military academy in Louisiana, but when the Civil War broke ... the first instance of "total war." In September, Sherman took Atlanta, and burned the military ...