A sail-boat was dispatched toward Panama, which luckily met the steamer John L. Stephens, just coming out of the bay, loaded with about a thousand passengers bound for San Francisco, ...
This Penguin Classics edition includes a fascinating introduction and notes by Sherman biographer Michael Fellman.
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author.
The memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union general in the American Civil War. The two volumes of Sherman's memoirs (both included in this edition) cover a range of times and places leading up to and including the war.
His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance.
The first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T. Sherman, this volume features more than 400 letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the day Sherman bade farewell to his troops ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
This well-edited collection of Sherman's letters span his lifetime. It includes letters from every major period of his life, including the Georgia Campaign and the end of the Civil War....
From his early exploits in Florida, through his brilliant but tempestuous generalship during the Civil War, to his postwar career as a key player in the building of the transcontinental railroad, Sherman was, as O’Connell puts it, the ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Nichols, Story of the Great March, 56; Weintraub, Sherman's Christmas, 87; Hitchcock, Marching with Sherman, 119, 122, 158. Hitchcock, Marching with Sherman, 78. Nichols, Story of the Great March, 84; Weintraub, Sherman's Christmas, ...