Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) 1820-1891

Overview

Works:	2,086 works in 3,554 publications in 1 language and 101,574 library holdings
Genres:	History Biographies Autobiographies Personal narratives Sources Personal correspondence Trivia and miscellanea Campaign speeches
Subject Headings:	Armed Forces Generals
Roles:	Author, Dedicatee, Former owner, Other, Correspondent, Editor, Composer
Classifications:	E467.1.S55, B

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Most widely held works about William T Sherman

Sherman : a soldier's passion for order by John F Marszalek( )
Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William T Sherman( Book )
Memoirs of Gen. W.T. Sherman by William T Sherman( )
Savannah, or, A gift for Mr. Lincoln : a novel by John Jakes( Book )
Sherman's march by Burke Davis( Book )

Demon of the Lost Cause : Sherman and Civil War history by Wesley Moody( )
Sherman, fighting prophet by Lloyd Lewis( Book )
Sherman and the burning of Columbia by Marion Brunson Lucas( )
Patriotic gore; studies in the literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson( Book )
The fateful lightning : a novel of the Civil War by Jeff Shaara( Book )
Sherman's Mississippi campaign by Buckley Thomas Foster( )
The destructive war : William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster( Book )
Grant and Sherman : the friendship that won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood( Book )
William Tecumseh Sherman and the settlement of the West by Robert G Athearn( Book )
Citizen Sherman : a life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Michael Fellman( Book )
Sherman's march through the Carolinas by John Gilchrist Barrett( Book )
Southern storm : Sherman's march to the sea by Noah Andre Trudeau( Book )
Sherman's march in myth and memory by Edward Caudill( )
Sherman's ghosts : soldiers, civilians, and the American way of war by Matthew Carr( Book )
The march to the sea and beyond : Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns by Joseph T Glatthaar( Book )

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Most widely held works by William T Sherman

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William T Sherman( Book )

17 editions published between 1875 and 2017 in English and held by 751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Just as the Civil War has been called by military experts the first modern war, so General Sherman has been called the first modern general. His emphasis on strategy and mobility of troops has earned him a distinguished place in military history. First published just ten years after the Civil War ended, General Sherman's Memoirs, an intimate first-hand account, reveal the development of his ultimate theory that the way to decide wars and win battles is "more by the movement of troops than by fighting."--from inside jacket

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William T Sherman( Book )

33 editions published between 1875 and 1984 in English and held by 550 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"William Tecumseh Sherman has been called the first modern general. According to military historian B.H. Liddell Hart, he understood before his contemporaries that wars and battles would be won "more by the movement of troops than by fighting." Also modern is his unsentimental view of combat, epitomized in his famous remark that "War is Hell." And he was an able enough historian to realize that the Civil War - - and indeed all future wars - - would be unlike anything the world had ever seen: a bitter national struggle between the free people that would involve a campaign of terror against combatant and non-combatant alike. His 'Memoirs, ' which rank with Grant's as the greatest of the Civil War, concern for the most part the strategy and fighting at Bull Run, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and of course the march through Georgia which earned Sherman his reputation for ruthlessness. It is a story packed with incident as well as swift sketches of his opponents, subordinates, and superiors, and it is endlessly instructive about the lessons of the war. Most of all, it is a compelling narrative about a national tragedy. This edition of Sherman's masterpiece reprints in its entirety the 1875 two-volume work, here supplemented witha new introduction by William S. McFeely, author of the acclaimed biography of Grant and of the introduction to the Da Capo edition of Grant's 'Personal Memoirs.""--Back cover

Our wild Indians : thirty-three years' personal experience among the red men of the great West : a popular account of their social life, religion, habits, traits, customs, exploits, etc. : with thrilling adventures and experiences on the Great Plains and in the mountains of our wide frontier by Richard Irving Dodge( Book )

13 editions published between 1882 and 1978 in English and held by 491 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Much relevance to Indians of Canada

The Sherman letters; correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891 by William T Sherman( Book )

23 editions published between 1894 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 472 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A da Capo Press reprint series. The American scene; comments and commentators

Military law by William T Sherman( )

7 editions published between 1880 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Tecumseh Sherman: gold rush banker by Dwight L Clarke( Book )

2 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 405 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Commanding voices of blue & gray : General William T. Sherman ... [et al.] ; edited by Brian M. Thomsen( Book )

2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Documents the Civil War as experienced by the commanders on both sides, in an anthology that features the writings of such figures as Sherman, McClellan, Mosby, Longstreet, Custer, and others

Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War : in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session by United States( Book )

4 editions published in 1866 in English and held by 249 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reports of inspection made in the summer of 1877 by Generals P.H. Sheridan and W.T. Sherman of country north of the Union Pacific railroad by United States( Book )

11 editions published between 1878 and 1975 in English and held by 245 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Who burnt Columbia? : Part 1st. Official depositions of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, "General of the Army of the United States," and Gen. O.O. Howard, U.S.A., for the defence; and extracts from some of the depositions for the claimants. Filed in certain claims vs. United States, pending before "The mixed commission on British and American claims," in Washington, D.C. : Part 2d will contain the rebuttal testimony yet to be taken( )

11 editions published in 1873 in English and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Correspondence between General W.T. Sherman, U.S. Army and Major General W.S. Hancock, U.S. Army : &c., &c by William T Sherman( )

8 editions published in 1871 in English and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

General and field orders. Campaign of the armies of the Tennessee, Ohio and Cumberland, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, commanding, 1864-5 by United States( )

6 editions published in 1865 in English and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Major-General Sherman's reports by William T Sherman( )

10 editions published between 1865 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 132 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sherman's Reports include comprehensive accounts of his campaign against Atlanta, campaign against Savannah, campaign through the Carolinas, Johnson's truce and surrender, and the story of the march through Georgia. The report is detailed in exact troop movement, strategy and weaponry

Recollections of California, 1846-1861 by William T Sherman( Book )

2 editions published in 1945 in English and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) of Ohio won military fame as one of the greatest Union generals in the Civil War. His association with California began when he served as an aide to Generals Philip Kearny and Richard Barnes Mason during the Mexican War. He remained in California as an adjutant to General Persifor Smith. Sherman's military tour in California ended in January 1850, but he resigned his Army commission in 1853 and returned to California as manager of a new bank. Barring a brief trip east to bring his wife and daughter to their new home in San Francisco, Sherman remained until 1857. Recollections of California (1945) contains extracts from Sherman's published Memoirs dealing with his life in California as well as two letters written by Sherman from Monterey in 1848. These cover his voyage round the Horn and landing in Monterey and military missions to Los Angeles and San Francisco. He discusses the Army's problems of establishing military rule and recalls the discovery of gold, which transformed the military mission and his own life. Sherman chronicles his part in Governor Mason's historic inspection trip to the gold fields near Sutter's Fort in 1848 as well as his own business ventures of the time: a store at Coloma, surveying a channel through Suisan Bay, a ranch at Cosumnes River, and Sacramento land speculations. He describes San Francisco and the flood of immigrants to California, 1848-1849. From his later residence, he recalls the bank run of 1855 and the Vigilance Committee crisis of 1856. The excerpts end with Sherman's recollections of his life as attorney and educator, 1857-1861, before the Civil War called him back to military life

Reply of Maj. Gen. Sherman to the mayor of Atlanta : and speeches of Maj. Gen. Hooker, delivered in the cities of Brooklyn and New York, Sept. 22, 1864. Letter of Lieut. Gen. Grant. Voices from the army by William T Sherman( )

5 editions published in 1864 in English and held by 108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reply of Maj. Gen. Sherman to the mayor of Atlanta : and speeches of Maj. Gen. Hooker, delivered in the cities of Brooklyn and New York, Sept. 22, 1864. Letter of Lieut. Gen. Grant by William T Sherman( )

6 editions published in 1864 in English and held by 104 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

General Sherman's official account of his great march through Georgia and the Carolinas, from his departure from Chattanooga to the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate forces under his command. To which is added, General Sherman's evidence before the Congressional committee on the conduct of the war; the animadversions of Secretary Stanton and General Halleck: with a defence of his proceedings, etc by William T Sherman( Book )

7 editions published in 1865 in English and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This edition of Sherman's official account includes "Evidence given before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, the Animadversions of Secretary Stanton and General Halleck: with a Defense of his Proceedings."

Sherman's Civil War by William T Sherman( Book )

3 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 79 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William T Sherman( Book )

19 editions published between 1990 and 2007 in English and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hailed as a prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it," he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges and a fascinating, eerie account of the famous march through the Carolinas

Personal memoirs of Gen. W.T. Sherman by William T Sherman( Book )

7 editions published between 1875 and 1891 in English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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