Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman by William T. Sherman

By Himself

An expansive first-person Civil War memoir tracing a soldier’s path from early life and prewar service through pivotal campaigns—Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Atlanta drive, the March to the Sea, and the Carolinas—blending battlefield narrative, orders, and letters with blunt reflections on strategy, logistics, politics, the press, emancipation, and Reconstruction. It offers candid portraits of fellow commanders (notably Grant), defends the rationale and methods of “hard war,” recounts surrender negotiations that helped end major fighting, and meditates on the human and national costs of restoring the Union.

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