Sherman, William T

An annotated edition of William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs, in which he discusses his life from his birth in 1820 through his Civil War days as commanding general of the Union forces in the West, up to his retirement from the military in 1884.

A self-portrait of the Civil War General with firsthand accounts of crucial Civil War events.

Contains the wartime correspondences of General William T. Sherman, including more than four hundred personal and official letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the end of Sherman's military career in 1865.