O'Connell says at the outset of this interesting, if peculiar, study of the life of William Tecumseh Sherman that many ... To his men he was “Uncle Billy,” a persona he carefully cultivated ...

Like Gilbert and Sullivan's Maj. Gen. Stanley, William Tecumseh Sherman was the "very model of a modern major general." The Union commander developed many of the ideas on which contemporary ...

But the man clearly in command of the room is William Tecumseh Sherman ... of the Civil War through the eyes of Sherman's soldiers, who called him "Uncle Billy." It was a democratic army, made ...

William Tecumseh ... Sherman's veteran troops had come to love his quirky, unkempt style, his intelligence that some felt verged on craziness, and his fighting spirit. ''I'd follow Uncle Billy ...

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 ...

Todd Groce talked about Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s background, his “March to the Sea” campaign, and how General Sherman is rem… read more Todd Groce talked about Union ...

Hated across the South but a hero to the North, William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta in record time and lay waste to the Georgia and South Carolina countryside on his 1864 “March to the Sea.” ...