Sherman led 62,000 troops on a brutal 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah. His goal: break the Confederacy’s will by destroying infrastructure, crippling the Southern economy, and demoralizing its ...

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

Few have made a mark quite like Union Gen. William T. Sherman. Driving the news: In November of 1864, Union troops, led by Sherman, torched the railroad town that served as the Confederacy's ...

Nast. Library of Congress Eric Foner: The great army of the West, commanded by General William T. Sherman, enters Savannah, Georgia, at Christmas of 1864. They have just come on their march to ...

William T. Sherman established the School of Application for Cavalry and Infantry. That school evolved into the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College which is still at Fort Leavenworth.