![]() He recovered and forged a close partnership with General Ulysses S. He was stationed in Kentucky, where his pessimism about the outlook of the war led to a breakdown that required him to be briefly put on leave. Sherman commanded a brigade of volunteers at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 before being transferred to the Western Theater. In 1859, he became superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy (now Louisiana State University), a position from which he resigned when Louisiana seceded from the Union. He interrupted his military career in 1853 to pursue private business ventures, without much success. īorn in Ohio into a politically prominent family, Sherman graduated in 1840 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was "the most original genius of the American Civil War" and "the first modern general". British military theorist and historian B. H. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched-earth policies that he implemented against the Confederate States. ![]() William Tecumseh Sherman ( / t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə/ tih- KUM-sə February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. ![]()
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