William Tecumseh Sherman

See also: William, Tecumseh (homonymy), Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman , born with Lancaster, in Ohio in 1820 - deceased with New York in 1891, was an American general, graduate of the military academy of West Point.

One of the best chiefs Northerner S of the American Civil War, it remains famous for its “Great Walk towards the sea” in Georgia, of the railway center of Atlanta to the port city of Savannah (410 kilometers), in December 1864.

After bombardments violent one, Atlanta fell to the hands from the northerner troops, the general having ordered with his troops to set fire to the rebellious city to give him a lesson. Then, the enormous army of 60.000 soldiers burned and plundered firm and villages to the neighborhoods of Savannah. The townsmen of Savannah opposed no resistance there, and their city was saved. In a famous telegram sent to President Abraham Lincoln, the general was ironical by offering to him this city “in Christmas present”.

The troops of Sherman continued their destroying walk while crossing the States of South Carolina and North Carolina. War is hell (the war, it is the hell), it declared. The wild reputation of the general William T. Sherman was assured. It thus removed the South Carolina and from the Northern of the last nodes of resistances.

In 1868, after the election of Grant it becomes commander-in-chief it of the army of the United States.

A tree bears today its name, it is the General Sherman, most imposing of the world.

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