Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was " the first modern general ".

Senator Ewing secured an appointment for the 16-year-old Sherman as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he roomed and became good friends with another important future Civil War General, George H. Thomas.

Beginning in late April, a Union force of 100, 000 moved slowly against Corinth, under Halleck's command with Grant relegated to second-in-command ; Sherman commanded the division on the extreme right of the Union's right wing ( under George H. Thomas ).

The influential 20th century British military historian and theorist B. H. Liddell Hart ranked Sherman as one of the most important strategists in the annals of war, along with Scipio Africanus, Belisarius, Napoleon Bonaparte, T. E. Lawrence, and Erwin Rommel.

The admiration of scholars such as Victor Davis Hanson, B. H. Liddell Hart, Lloyd Lewis, and John F. Marszalek for General Sherman owes much to what they see as an approach to the exigencies of modern armed conflict that was both effective and principled.

* Sherman at War, edited by Joseph H. Ewing ( Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1992 ) – approximately thirty war time letters to Sherman's father-in-law, Thomas Ewing, and one of his brothers-in-law, Philemon B. Ewing.

Sherman as College President, edited by Walter L. Fleming ( Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1912 ) – edited letters and other documents from Sherman's 1859 – 1861 service as superintendent of the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy.

* Reports of Inspection Made in the Summer of 1877 by Generals P. H. Sheridan and W. T. Sherman of Country North of the Union Pacific Railroad ( co-author, 1878 )

* Liddell Hart, B. H., Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1929.

* Sherman T. Potter, from M * A * S * H

Morgan had played Colonel Sherman Potter for nearly a decade, on both M * A * S * H, and its sequel, AfterMASH.

Sherman, Director of the Pacific Electric Railway Company, created a major real estate group to develop what is known today as the Hollywood Hills, Sidney H. Woodruff, already a prominent Los Angeles homebuilder, was hired to lead the project.

Located within the town are a number of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places including: Peter Bitley House, Thomas Bitley House, Samuel Botsford House, Esperanza, Hampstead, Uriah Hanford House, George Hays House, Ezikial Perry House, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Sill Tenant House, Abraham Wagener House, H. Allen Wagener House, Jemima Wilkinson House, and Sherman Williams House and Fruit Barn.

Biggs was named for a nearby landowner, W. H. Biggs, who settled in Sherman County in 1880.

W. H. L. Wallace ( replacing Charles Ferguson Smith, disabled by a leg injury ), Stephen A. Hurlbut, William T. Sherman, and Benjamin M. Prentiss.

The community is also supposed to be the home of Col. Sherman T. Potter from the television show M * A * S * H ( TV series ).

* Sherman T. Potter, a character in the TV series M * A * S * H.

Creators of artistamps include Donald Evans, Ginny Lloyd ( Gina Lotta ), Crackerjack Kid ( Chuck Welsh ), Reed Altemus, Darlene Altschul ( DKA POST ), Katerina Nikoltsou, Eleanor Kent, Beverly Dittberner, Jim Czyl, Boog, Keith Buchholz, Otto Sherman, Marilyn Rosenberg, Petra Weimer, Peter Netmail, Buster Cleveland, William Rowe, Miguel Jimenez, Dame Mailarta, György Galántai, Carl Chew, Anna Banana, Patricia Tavenner, Jas W Felter, Michael Bidner, Michael Thompson, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Ed Paschke, Clifford Harper, Al Brandtner, Steve Smith, Russell Butler ( buZ blurr ), Alan Brignull, Dennis Jordan, Rachel Scott, Guy Bleus, Arturo G. Fallico, Harley, Hamlet Mateo, Michael Angelo H. Mayo Post 1211, Marlon Vito Picasso ( Rocola ), Kursade Karatas, Bruce Grenville, Natalie Lamanova, Robert Rudine, H. R.

Between September and December 1943, Ives lived in California with actor Harry Morgan ( who would later go on to play Officer Bill Gannon in the 1960s version of Jack Webb's TV show Dragnet, and Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M * A * S * H ).

Handed down as a 6-2 decision by the Court on June 4, 1951, the judgment and a plurality opinion was delivered by Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson, who was joined by Justices Stanley Forman Reed, Sherman Minton, and Harold H. Burton.

Originally Samuel Holland Rous ( who recorded as S. H. Dudley, but is not to be confused with the black vaudeville performer Sherman H. Dudley ) formed a vocal quartet in 1896 to record for Edison ’ s studios.

Among them was an issue commemorating Generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan.

Here, Bragg was stationed with three future Union Army generals that he came to consider close friends: George H. Thomas and John F. Reynolds ( both of whom were lieutenants who reported to Bragg ) and William T. Sherman.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

Before making the news public Sherman sent an officer with the note to Thomas.

The next day Sherman issued his orders ending the campaign and pulled his armies back to Atlanta.

Sherman laid great store by place captures.

Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

Official congratulations showered upon Sherman and his army.

Sherman had accomplished this much of his job and then inexplicably nullified it by his thirty-mile retreat from Lovejoy's to Atlanta.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

To the Rebels it seemed as if Sherman carried tunnels and bridges in his pockets.

Sherman could never be accused of sticking too long with the old.

So Sherman tried a compromise.

Sherman knew the uses of cavalry as well as Thomas but he imagined a moving base with infantry wings instead of cavalry wings.

Sherman insisted that cavalry could not successfully break up hostile railways, yet Garrard's Covington raid and Rousseau's Opelika raid cut two-thirds of the rail lines he had to break and Sherman lived in mortal fear of what Forrest might do to his communications.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

Johnston believed that Sherman put his naked engineers into the swimming parties to locate the various fords.

This claim, as submitted to the District Court and dismissed by it, 126 F.Supp.235, alleged violation not only of 7 of the Clayton Act, but also of 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.

However, this Court put to one side without consideration the Government's appeal from the dismissal of its Sherman Act allegations.

Rep. Charles E. Hughes of Sherman, sponsor of the bill, said a failure to enact it would amount `` to making a gift out of the taxpayers' pockets to banks, insurance and pipeline companies ''.

His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.

Mrs. John C. Vroman Jr. of Manzanola is spending several days in her Sherman Plaza apartment.

Later, Huff cashed three checks for $100 each at the Sherman House, using a credit card.

More than 10 companies maintain facilities in Dallas and one large manufacturer is located to the north at Sherman.