Later, it would be known as the first instance of "total war." In September ... he named his friend Sherman general commander of the U.S. Army. Sherman, whose middle name, Tecumseh, was that ...

General William Tecumseh Sherman and his Union Army have brutally ... The campaign is remembered as a path of destruction, a total war waged against the white civilians of the South.

C.C. Smith, of the Treasury Department, lately found among his war letters the following from Gen. Sherman, written soon after his son Willie died at Memphis: View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The general has long been remembered ... It's gone down in history as Gen. Sherman's infamous "March to the Sea." It's considered a harbinger of the "total war" to follow in the 20th century.

Sherman was between six and ten years old during the years that America was at war, and eagerly participated in the “war effort.” He regularly collected enough scrap metal to gain free ...

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. One of the Civil War’s best-known generals, William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891) was born in Lancaster, ...