William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes


I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.


Citations

Thorndike, Rachel Sherman, editor. The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894, p. 320.

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William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Born: February 8, 1820
  • Died: February 14, 1891
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), receiving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. British military theorist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was "the first modern general".