When the Civil War was over, General Ulysses S. Johnston opposed Sherman in engagements at Averasboro and Bentonville, but Johnson surrendered to Sherman after hearing of General Robert E. In February 1865, Sherman started northward through South Carolina. Sherman burned through the city and, with 60,000 men, began his famous march to the sea. His Atlanta campaign resulted in the fall of that city on September 2, 1864. In March 1864, when Grant became Commanding General, Sherman succeeded him as supreme commander in the West. He commanded the Union left in the Chattanooga campaign before he moved to Knoxville to the relief of General Burnside. ![]() Grant assumed supreme command in the West, Sherman became commander of the Army of the Tennessee. After the occupation of Memphis, he took command of the District of Memphis from October through December 1862.Īfter his defeat at Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, he served in the capture of Arkansas Post. He distinguished himself as a division commander at Shiloh, Tennessee, and thus was promoted to major general in May 1862. In October, he was put in command of the Department of the Cumberland however, in November, he was transferred to the Department of the Missouri. In August, he was made a brigadier general of volunteers and sent to Kentucky. He led a brigade in the First Battle of Manassas, Virginia. On May 14, 1861, he accepted a commission as a Colonel in the 13th U.S. In 1859, he accepted a job as the first superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, which he held until the outbreak of the Civil War. ![]() Afterward, he practiced law in Leavenworth, Kansas, a venture that was unsuccessful. However, the bank failed in the financial panic of 1857. In 1853, Sherman resigned from his military commission and became president of a bank in San Francisco. Later, he would serve in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Upon graduation in 1840, he entered the Army as a second lieutenant and saw action in the Second Seminole War (1840-1842). He joined the Military Academy at West Point at the age of 16. His father died when he was nine, and he was taken in and raised by a family friend. William Tecumseh Sherman was a soldier, businessman, teacher, and author who served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War and afterward led troops against the Indians in the American West.īorn Tecumseh Sherman in Lancaster, Ohio on February 8, 1820, to Judge Charles Robert Sherman and Mary Hoyt Sherman, William was one of 11 children.
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