WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN: In the Service of My Country: A Life. By James Lee McDonough. Norton. 721 pages. $39.95. Of the many photographs taken of William Tecumseh Sherman during and after the Civil ...

WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN: In the Service of My Country — A Life, by James Lee McDonough. W.W. Norton & Company, 816 pp., $39.95. When the Civil War broke out, William Tecumseh Sherman didn’t want any ...

Prologue : Death stared us all in the face -- My father named me William Tecumseh -- I was notified to prepare for West Point -- In the service of my country -- Sand and sun, Seminoles and Spaniards - ...

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 warfare is ...

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history. The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are ...

BATAVIA — William Tecumseh Sherman is one of the Civil War’s more controversial generals. “What a complex guy this is. This is a guy you love and hate by turns,” said Derek Maxfield, an associate ...

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 ...

Some 500 pieces of American history unseen even by scholars are coming to light through an auction taking place through Fleischer’s Auctions of Columbus. The two-day auction, “Civil War & African ...

(CNN) — At first, it was the rare binding that caught the eye of Danielle Linn, a senior book specialist with Fleischer’s Auctions. While cataloging items once owned by the Union Army General, William ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined ...

As California celebrates Admission Day – we joined the United States on Sept. 9, 1850 – we should give ourselves an overdue present: A founding story of our statehood starring someone we can be proud ...