Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War (Derek D. Maxfield - UA) Section- Confederate Officers and that the war’s unimaginable

and that the war’s unimaginable horrors―every drop of blood spilled―might well have been God’s just verdict on the national sin of slavery

improvising brilliantly

Jennie was the only Gettysburg civilian to be killed outright during the battle

in coastal South Carolina

For the remainder of the Civil War the Union Navy used dozens of monitor-style vessels on inland waters as well as at sea

Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War (Derek D. Maxfield - UA) Section- Confederate Officers and that the war’s unimaginableby Derek D. Maxfield He has been accused of studied and ingenious cruelty. By turns, he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a madman. But whatever you call William Tecumseh Sherman, you must admit he is utterly fascinating. Sherman spent a lifetime in search of who he was, striving to find a place and a calling. Informally adopted by the Ewing family of Lancaster, Ohio, when his own father died when he was just