He wasn't popular in the South at the Civil War's end, and in many ways he still isn't. But that didn't keep Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman from returning to Louisiana after scorching a path ...

The promise of Union General William T. Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 — the so-called "40 acres and a mule" — is often thought of as a broken one.

A portrait of William T. Sherman, circa 1860, by Samuel H. Lockett, during the time he was superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy Pineville, which ...