Sherman fought at the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, ... William Tecumseh Sherman retired from the military in 1884, nearly 50 years after he had entered West Point.

Bull Run has steep banks and is deep in spots, and would have slowed even experienced troops. The soldiers of 1861, and many of their officers, were still novices.

It is doubtful the tragic devastation of the Russia-Ukraine War would surprise William Sherman were he alive today. The iconic U.S. Army soldier was a student of war at home and abroad.. Sherman ...

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a surprising instrument of emancipation. Although raised in Ohio and firmly wedded to the Union cause when the nation erupted into civil war, he was a racist who ...

In September 1864, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta and warned citizens to evacuate before he burned the town. The mayor and city council implored him to rescind the evacuation order ...

During the Civil War, Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops arrived in Savannah, Georgia, days before Christmas in 1864. The city was their final stop on Sherman's March to the ...

THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. Share full article. Sept. 1, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 1, 1862, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

Sherman’s army of 60,000-plus soldiers, moving through Georgia late in 1864, “stomped out the dying embers of a slave regime,” Mr. Parten writes in “Somewhere Toward Freedom.” ...