William Sherman
March to Sea
William Tecumseh Sherman was a Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his March to the Sea—a devastating 1864 campaign through Georgia that employed scorched-earth tactics against Confederate infrastructure and civilian resources.
His name evokes total war and the doctrine that breaking an enemy's will matters as much as defeating their army.
Sherman's march has become shorthand for ruthless military campaigns that spare nothing in their path.
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- UnionNamed political entity
- Union ArmyNorthern military in 1860s
- generalWidespread, not specialized
- AtlantaGeorgia's capital city
March to the Sea · burning · Georgia · Grant · Lincoln · Savannah · scorched earth · total war · Confederate · Confederate States · destruction · cavalry · infantry · railroads · South · Reconstruction · army · campaign
- U.S. GeneralsEisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Grant, Lee
- Civil War FiguresRobert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln
- military figuressoldier, general, corporal, private, lieutenant
- Civil War RepublicansAbraham Lincoln
- Western TheaterBattle of Shiloh, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Nashville, Atlanta
- US MilitaryArmy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Pentagon, West Point
William ShermanRobert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson · Jefferson Davis · Confederate generals · Confederate monuments · Southern honor
William ShermanRobert E. Lee
conventional warfare · restraint · mercy · rules of engagement · knights
William, Sherman, will, willed, willing, willingly, unwilling, Williams