Sherman P: A Biography of General William T. Sherman

by StanleyP.Hirshson (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1998

  $22.49

  Extraordinarily readable. --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. In The White Tecumseh, Stanley Hirshson has crafted a beautiful and rigorous work of scholarship, the only life of Sherman to draw on regimental histories and testimonies by the general's own men. What emerges is a landmark portrait of a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by a family legacy of mental illness and relentlessly driven to realize a powerful military ambition. Sympathetic yet excellent ...insight into how Sherman's own troops felt about him and his relationships with fellow generals, especially Grant...Highly recommended. --Library Journal