When was General William T Sherman born?

Answer 1

A highly successful Union army General, notable for his partnership with U.S. Grant in the final year of the Civil War.

He was a West Point trained regular, whose career had suffered from his posting to Northern California, away from the action, during the Mexican War, where the other Civil War Generals had gained their early experience of combat.

On the outbreak of the Civil War, he was serving in Louisiana, where he had made many friends, and he was one of the few people on either side who guessed that it would be a long war. He wrote to these friends, predicting correctly that the Confederates would enjoy some early victories, but that the war would steadily tilt against them.

In the first pitched battle (Bull Run), he distinguished himself in action, but declared himself insane afterwards, demanding to be locked up.

It was not until the following spring, when he was posted to the Western theatre, that he met U.S. Grant, and they made a good team, becoming close friends for life. He played a big part in the Vicksburg campaign, and when Grant became General-in-Chief in March 1864, he made Sherman an army commander and ordered him to destroy the Army of Tennessee.

Although he did not succeed in doing this, mainly because his supply-line was too long, he captured Atlanta and then peruaded Grant to allow him to conduct a punitive raid across Georgia. This shortened the war by months at almost nil casualties, and it is ironical that the March to the Sea earned him a reputation for brutality.

He was simply being brutally logical in destroying farms and railroads in order to starve the Confederates in the field. He had strictly forbidden violence against the person, and where this happened, it was not usually at the hands of his own men, but of the lawless deserters from both sides who ride alongside the army for the pickings.

However successful the March to the Sea, he was not especially proud of it, and did not think it merited a triumphal song like 'When we were marching through Georgia' - a tune he loathed, partly because it was played wherever he went for the rest of his life.

He was offered the chance of running for President, but refused it. He said "If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve."

Answer 2

Because he made a good team with U.S. Grant, as a fellow Northwesterner.

Later Sherman said "I looked afer him when he was drunk, and he looked after me when I was mad."

When Grant became General-in-Chief, he made Sherman an army commander - a decision that was well justified by Sherman's creative decision to cross Georgia, shortening the war by months at almost nil casualties.

Answer 3

During the US Civil War General Sherman was know for his morch to the sea. He marched with his men across the southern states, cutting a swath from northwest all the way through Georgia.

Answer 4

February 9 th 1820 in lancaster Ohio

Answer 5

he founded the general auto insurance.