Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sherman, who lived from 1820 to 1891, concluded that war – what the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz defined as "an ...

Nov. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1791, Georgetown University, in what is now Washington, D.C., opened as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States. In 1864, Union General ...

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

At first, it was the rare binding that caught the eye of Danielle Linn, a senior book specialist with Fleischer’s Auctions. While cataloging items once owned by the Union Army General, William ...

To the editor: The Times recently published a letter arguing for re-naming the General Sherman sequoia tree because of the “savagery” of Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s campaign in Georgia ...

Here are a few quick details to keep in mind about the Jonathan Chase Cook documentary flick. William Tecumseh Sherman Beyond the March to the Sea starring Jonathan Chase Cook has a Not Rated rating, ...

William Tecumseh Sherman is mostly, if unjustly, remembered as a vandal, if not a war criminal, for the supposed “atrocities” committed wholesale by his army during his 1864 March to the Sea. Period ...

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a surprising instrument of emancipation. Although raised in Ohio and firmly wedded to the Union cause when the nation erupted into civil war, he was a racist who ...

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- William Tecumseh Sherman is often associated with destruction in the 19th century South, but the Union general's family also had a role in building Baldwin County in the decades ...

The sword and trunk used by Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman during the Civil War are going to auction at Fleischer’s Auctions on Tuesday. Sherman is best known for torching Atlanta in 1864 and ...