Hill had ties with General Sherman's brother at West Point, so his sparing the town was more political than appreciation of its beauty.

( Ironically, the commander of Union Forces who issued General Order No. 11, Brigadier General Thomas Ewing Jr., was Sherman's brother in law.

After an interrogation and informal trial, Robeson County's Home Guard executed Lowrie's father and brother, at the time when the Union General William T. Sherman's army was entering Robeson County.

Sherman's annoying and obnoxious brother who takes up residence in Lake Erie.

Josiah Sherman ( Princeton College-1754 ), a brother of the distinguished Roger Sherman ; and his mother was Martha Minott, the daughter of the Honorable James and Elizabeth ( Merrick ) Minott ( who were the aunt and uncle of Roger Sherman's second wife Rebecca Minot Prescott ) of Concord, Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, Charles L. Webster & Co. issued a " fourth edition, revised, corrected, and complete " with the text of Sherman ’ s second edition, a new chapter prepared under the auspices of the Sherman family bringing the general ’ s life from his retirement to his death and funeral, and an appreciation by politician James G. Blaine ( who was related to Sherman's wife ).

* Musicians: Charles Ansorge ; Carl Bergmann ; Otto Dresel ; Herman Trost ( band leader in Sherman's army who later settled in Lexington, Kentucky, where he conducted the first band at the University of Kentucky ; friend of John Philip Sousa ); Carl Zerrahn

In 1986, Charles headlined a production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Confrontation.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

Gen. Sherman in his place ; this posting to Mexico also conveniently diminished Sherman's availability for the War Secretary's job.

* November 15 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea begins: Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, causing extensive devastation to crops and mills and living off the land.

* November 22 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General Sherman from Georgia.

In early 1880 Garfield endorsed John Sherman for the party's Presidential nomination in exchange for Sherman's earlier support of Garfield for the Senate.

To Sherman's great displeasure and sorrow, one of his sons, Thomas Ewing Sherman, joined the religious order of the Jesuits in 1878 and was ordained as a priest in 1889.

During September and October, Sherman and Hood played cat-and-mouse in north Georgia ( and Alabama ) as Hood threatened Sherman's communications to the north.

The government in Washington, D. C., refused to approve Sherman's terms and the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, denounced Sherman publicly, precipitating a long-lasting feud between the two men.

Another World War II-era student of Liddell Hart's writings about Sherman was George S. Patton, who "' spent a long vacation studying Sherman's campaigns on the ground in Georgia and the Carolinas, with the aid of Hart's book '" and later "' carried out his plans, in super-Sherman style '".

" However, Sherman himself stated that " f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village ; but I did not do it ..." Sherman's official report on the burning placed the blame on Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton III, who Sherman said had ordered the burning of cotton in the streets.

But when comparing Sherman's scorched-earth campaigns to the actions of the British Army during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 )— another war in which civilians were targeted because of their central role in sustaining an armed resistance — South African historian Hermann Giliomee declares that it " looks as if Sherman struck a better balance than the British commanders between severity and restraint in taking actions proportional to legitimate needs ".

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865, edited by Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin ( Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999 ) – a large collection of war-time letters ( November 1860 to May 1865 ).

* 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.

The presentation of Sherman in popular culture is now discussed at book-length in Sherman's March in Myth and Memory ( Rowman and Littlefield, 2008 ), by Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown.

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865 ( posthumous, 1999 )

Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History ( University of Missouri Press ; 2011 ) 208 pp ; Traces Sherman's shifting reputation as shaped by Lost Cause historians, enemies in the North, and Sherman himself.

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865, eds.

The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign.

This was a new regiment yet to be raised, and Sherman's first command was actually of a brigade of three-month volunteers, at the head of which he became one of the few Union officers to distinguish himself at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, where he was grazed by bullets in the knee and shoulder.

When General William Tecumseh Sherman's XV Corps joined Grant's forces, however, the soldiers became lawless.

In July 1864, following the death of Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson, Howard became commander of the Army of the Tennessee, fought in the Atlanta Campaign, and led the right wing of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's famous March to the Sea, through Georgia and then the Carolinas.

During the American Civil War, Atlanta, as a distribution hub, became the target of a major Union campaign, and in 1864 Union General Sherman's troops set on fire and destroyed the city's assets and buildings, save churches and hospitals.

The twisted and broken railroad rails that the troops heated over fires and wrapped around tree trunks and left behind became known as " Sherman's neckties ".

Allan Sherman's LP My Son, the Folk Singer, which satirised the folk boom, became a huge hit, selling over a million copies.

When Savannah fell to General William Tecumseh Sherman's troops, Tattnall became a prisoner of war.

An additional consequence of the raid was that the Union high command became increasingly nervous about Sherman's plan to move through Georgia instead of confronting Hood and Forrest directly.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

The whistle of Sherman's locomotives often drowned out the rattle of the skirmish fire.

The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.

One of Sherman's most serious shortcomings, however, was his mistrust of his cavalry.

Already debilitated by the Chattanooga starvation, the quality of Sherman's horseflesh ran downhill as the campaign progressed.

Rank was becoming an explosive issue in all three of Sherman's armies.

Shortly after the beginning of Sherman's Georgia campaign, an ailing Yank wrote his homefolk: `` the surgeon insisted on sending me to the hospital for treatment.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.

However, times change, and in 2007, the New York Times reported that " the Bronx neighborhoods near the site of Sherman's accident are now dotted with townhouses and apartments.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

:* Battle of Ezra Church, July 28, 1864, Sherman's failed attack west of Atlanta where the railroad entered the city.

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

Of particular importance were Leroy Sherman's unit hydrograph, the infiltration theory of Robert E. Horton, and C. V. Theis's aquifer test / equation describing well hydraulics.

An image of " the South " was fixed in Mitchell's imagination when at six years old her mother took her on a buggy tour through ruined plantations and " Sherman's sentinels ", the brick and stone chimneys that remained after William Tecumseh Sherman's " March and torch " through Georgia.