In 1962, capitalizing on his success, Jubilee Records re-released Sherman's 1951 single on the album More Folk Songs by Allan Sherman and His Friends, which was a compilation of material by various Borscht Belt comedians, such as Sylvia Froos, Fyvush Finkle and Lee Tully, along with the Sherman material.

He was brevetted to major general in the regular army for his success at Chattanooga, but he was disappointed to find that Grant's official report of the battle credited his friend William Tecumseh Sherman's contribution over Hooker's.

However, the army grew to more than 30, 000 by the time the Army of Tennessee took part in the Battle of Bentonville, March 19 – 21, in which Johnston attacked a wing of Sherman's army and met with initial success before the rest of Sherman's force arrived and forced a Confederate withdrawal.

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.

* 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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

* December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to Savannah, GA ( Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however ).

Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting.

Map of Sherman's campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas, 1864 – 1865

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.

Sherman's military campaigns of 1864 and 1865 freed many slaves, who greeted him " as a second Moses or Aaron " and joined his marches through Georgia and the Carolinas by the tens of thousands.

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 '".

Sherman's advance through Georgia and South Carolina was characterized by widespread destruction of civilian supplies and infrastructure.

General Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate officer who had commanded the resistance to Sherman's troops in Georgia and the Carolinas, served as a pallbearer in New York City.

Some of the artistic treatments of Sherman's march are the Civil War era song " Marching Through Georgia " by Henry Clay Work ; Herman Melville's poem " The March to the Sea "; Ross McElwee's film Sherman's March ; and E. L. Doctorow's novel The March.

Sherman's invasion of Georgia later plays a central role in the plot of the novel.

* General Sherman's Official Account of His Great March to Georgia and the Carolinas, from His Departure from Chattanooga to the Surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Forces under His Command ( 1865 )

Weisman's stage résumé includes roles in Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol, Jean Giraudoux's Apollo of Bellac, which received a Garland for Production of the Year and seven LA Weekly award nominations ; Madman and the Nun, The Firebugs, Suburban Motel, Ethan Lipton's Hope on the Range, Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, Oscar Wilde's Salome, and the West Coast Premiere of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Sophistry.

Sherman's legislative record received a 100 % rating from the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) in 2011, a 100 % from the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) in 2007-2008, a 100 % from the Human Rights Campaign in 2009-2010, and a 98 % rating from the NAACP in 2009-2010.

" General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15, issued on January 16, 1865, provided for the land, while some of its beneficiaries also received mules from the Army, for use in plowing.

In 1864 he commanded a division of the XVII Corps in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, and before the Battle of Atlanta, on July 20, he received a gunshot wound to his knee that forced him to retire from active service, and left him lame for life.

Due to Sherman's recording company Metromedia having gone out of business in 1986, he never officially received his platinum record for " Julie Do Ya Love Me ".

On the other hand, most Northern generals were characterized as possessing low moral standards, because they subjected the Southern civilian population to indignities like Sherman's March to the Sea and Philip Sheridan's burning of the Shenandoah Valley in the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

A total of 10, 000 people arrived to listen to Sherman's speech, and the press reported that it was the largest number of people ever to gather within the township's boundaries ( at that time the village of Orchard Lake was part of West Bloomfield Township ).

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 results at the end when comparing Sherman's diary to Wilkins was that " Seventy-five per cent were found to be correct ".

Sherman's experiences in the military had been very similar to Grant's ; he had studied at West Point, served in the Mexican War, and later had resigned from the Army only to fail in his civilian career.

Confederate cavalry raiders Bedford Forrest and Earl Van Dorn stalled Grant's advance by breaking communications, while the Confederate army led by John C. Pemberton concentrated and repulsed Sherman's direct approach at Chickasaw Bayou.

McClernand afterwards made an attempt to salvage Sherman's effort to no avail, so at the end of the first day neither Grant nor McClernand had succeeded.

Wallace chose to take the " upper " path, which was much less used and considered in better condition, and which would lead him to reinforce the " right " side of Sherman's last known ( initial ) position at Shiloh Church.

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.

Upon hearing that Sherman's men were advancing on corduroy roads through the Salkehatchie swamps at a rate of a dozen miles per day, Johnston " made up his mind that there had been no such army in existence since the days of Julius Caesar.

Sherman's final significant military engagement was a victory over Johnston's troops at the Battle of Bentonville, March 19 – 21.

President Benjamin Harrison sent a telegram to General Sherman's family and ordered all national flags to be flown at half mast.

General Sherman's body was then transported to St. Louis, where another service was conducted on 21 February 1891 at a local Catholic church.

* 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.

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 House Museum, at Sherman's birthplace in Lancaster, Ohio

The distributor of First Run Features saw Sherman's March at the IFP ( the Independent Feature Project ) in New York and immediately said he'd take it.

According to Paul Attanasio, " he richness of Sherman's March comes from the way McElwee, in his roundabout way, completes the portrait of Sherman he originally set out to achieve "; but " he chief problem is that, at 2½ hours, it's about an hour too long.

Sherman's March was awarded the Grand Jury prize in the field of documentary at the 1987 Sundance Film Festival.

A note penciled on the wall of the Old Brick Church is testimony to a Union soldier's regret at the church's floor boards being taken up to build a crossing over the nearby river for General Sherman's troops.

Also in late December, Beauregard found out that Hood's army had been severely damaged in its defeat at the Battle of Nashville ; there were very few men in fighting condition who could oppose Sherman's advance.

Ford's dwelling was built on the site of Richmond Plantation, which was burned by elements of General William T. Sherman's army at the conclusion of the " March to the Sea ".