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Sherman - A Soldier's Passion for Order (Paperback)
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Sherman - A Soldier's Passion for Order (Paperback)
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Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order is the premier biography of
William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War commander known for his
""destructive war"" policy against Confederates and as a consummate
soldier. This updated edition of John F. Marszalek's award-winning
book presents the general as a complicated man who, fearing
anarchy, searched for the order that he hoped would make his life a
success. Sherman was profoundly influenced by the death of his
father and his subsequent relationship with the powerful Whig
politician Thomas Ewing and his family. Although the Ewings treated
Sherman as one of their own, the young Sherman was determined to
make it on his own. He graduated from West Point and moved on to
service at military posts throughout the South. This volume traces
Sherman's involvement in the Mexican War in the late 1840s, his
years battling prospectors and deserting soldiers in gold-rush
California, and his 1850 marriage to his foster sister, Ellen.
Later he moved to Louisiana, and, after the state seceded, Sherman
returned to the North to fight for the Union. Sherman covers the
general's early Civil War assignments in Kentucky and Missouri and
his battles against former Southern friends there, the battle at
Shiloh, and his rise to become second only to Grant among the Union
leadership. Sherman's famed use of destructive war, controversial
then and now, is examined in detail. The destruction of property,
he believed, would convince the Confederates that surrender was
their best option, and Sherman's successful strategy became the
stuff of legend. This definitive biography, which includes
forty-six illustrations, effectively refutes misconceptions
surrounding the controversial Union general and presents Sherman
the man, not the myth.
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