William Tecumseh Sherman was born on February 8th in the year 1820 in Lancaster Ohio. His father was Charles Sherman, a well-known lawyer and an Ohio Supreme Court Justice. Sherman was one out of eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Sherman. In 1829 his father died when Sherman was only 9. He went to live with a family friend. This family friend was Thomas Ewing, an Ohio Senator and a Whig member. With Sherman’s connections, mostly Thomas Ewing, got him an appointment into West Point Military Academy in Upstate New York. Sherman did excel academically, but had little regard for their rules. He never got into too much trouble, and managed to graduate in 1840, 6th in his class.
His military career was slow to start. Sherman first saw a little bit of action in Florida. He was a commander in the second Seminole war. He had various duty stations in Georgia, and South Carolina. While serving in those areas, he met some of the oldest, most respected families in the South. Sherman’s early military career was not all that exciting compared to most of his colleagues that served in the Mexican-American war, seeing lots of combat. Sherman on the other hand was stationed in California as an executive officer or as we say in the military, a xo.
In 1850, Sherman married Thomas Ewing’s daughter, Eleanor Boyle Ewing. In 1853 after 3 years of marriage, Sherman was questioning his role in the military. Feeling like he was going nowhere, due to his lack of combat experience, he decided that the United States Army was not for him. He resigned his commission. Sherman ended up staying in California as a banker during the time of the gold rush. His time as a banker ended with the panic of 1857. Sherman and his family moved to Kansas, there he p...
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...r his tactics. Historians and other officials have given credit to Sherman, for his tactics. He changed the face of war forever, and described it for what it is, “War is Hell!”
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“Sherman felt General Grant’s most valuable trait was, “simple faith in success… which I can liken to nothing else than the faith a Christian has in a savior” (Furgurson 15). Sherman compares General Grant to a savior which is mighty high praise and most people tend to worship their saviors. In communicating that General Grant’s most important assess was confidence in success, General Sherman is the best commander possible and the people should follow and praise him for the work that he is doing. Sherman respected Grant so much that he put faith in him even though Grant faced a very tough enemy. Sherman believed that Grant could inspire the Army of the Potomac to do its part in defeating the south even though they faced a tough enemy frequently (Furgurson 32). The task of motivating tired troops is definitely not an easy one, but Sherman regards Grant as a savior so if anyone can motivate that army Sherman believes that it is Grant. That demonstrates William Sherman’s high regard for his superiors. He respected his soldiers and his superiors so much that he started to think of them as family (anb.org). Regarding the army of family is one of the shows that he has the utmost respect for