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Please read the article and write (at least) a 100 word essay on the following questions. Who is General Sherman? What was his impact on the Civil War? What was his greatest accomplishment in the Civil War?
Due by Friday, February 17, 2012 at 10:00pm
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Sherman was acknowledged for his fantastic military strategy. He served under General Ulysses S. Grant during campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg. He later led his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, the success that led to the election of Abraham Lincoln. Sherman was in charge of the U.S. Army's engagement in the Indian Wars over the next fifteen years. He was considered a great soldier.
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DeleteWilliam T. Sherman was an American soldier who later was known as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The most important achivment that Sherman did was getting all the North and clearing all the "Mississippi of confederate resistance". He is the only man that recived the Thanks of the congress during the war. After he was almost done on wating for Smith, one that was at his charge he wrote "For five days, 10,000 men worked hard and with a will in that work of destruction... Meridian, with its depots, storehouses, arsenals, hospitals, offices, hotels, and cantonments no longer exists" that I think is a really hard part of this.
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General William T. Sherman was a general who led the campaign from Vicksburg, Mississippi, with the goal of destroying the rail center at Meridian and clearing central Mississippi of Confederate resistance. General Sherman's impact on the Civil War was the success that he brought to the Union side during the war. He also did capture the Meridian and destroyed railroad and storage facilities. Greatest accomplishment by General Sherman was taking notes and using the knowledge he learned to create devastating results in the state of Georgia at the time. To conclude I’d like to say General Sherman is a wise for taking notes and learning his opponents skills to better himself and get the upper hand.
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General William T. Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.On February 14,1864 General William T. Sherman entered Meridian, Mississippi, during a winter campaign that served as a precursor to Sherman's March to the Sea campaign in Georgia. Sherman launched the campaign from Vicksburg, Mississippi, with the goal of destroying the rail center at Meridian and clearing central Mississippi of Confederate resistance. Ultimately, Sherman failed to clear Mississippi of Rebels, and the Confederates repaired the rail lines within a month. An advantage or bright side from Sherman's failure was he learned how to live off the land and took notes on how to strike a blow against the civilian population of the South. He used that knowledge with devastating results in Georgia later that year.
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William Sherman was the son of a judge. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on February 8th 1820. He studied at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and after joining the United States Army he was sent to Florida fight in the Seminole War. He was an American soldier, business man, educator, and author. Sherman was a key Union General in the Civil War. He was applauded for his astonishing military strategies.
ReplyDeleteHis ambition was to destroy the rail center at Meridian and to clear central Mississippi of Confederate resistance. “Sherman believed this would free additional Federal troops…” Sherman’s greatest accomplishment is capturing Meridian and destroying railroads and storage facilities. His tactics and strategies gave the Union an advantage. His heart to serve, under Ulysses S. Grant, probably had something to do with it.
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Sherman was a general for the union during the Civil War. He also took place in the first attack against the Confederates, which was the Mississippi campaign. Although General Sherman played a good part in this battle, it is commonly overlooked by the March to the Sea campaign. I say General Sherman had a big impact because he was a great general and leader for the Union. He was a determined person that knew what was at stake if they had anything less than a victory. I would say Sherman’s greatest accomplishment was the March to the Sea campaign. Many thought that this would be the end of the war. So General Sherman pushed, giving orders to pretty much destroy everything in sight, which lead to a great victory.
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General Sherman was an American Soldier that served as a General in the Union Army during Civil War. He also worked as an author, educator, and businessman. He received compliments on his outstanding command of military strategy. General Sherman was declared “the first modern general” by B. H. Hart. He is noted as one of the first Union officers to distinguish himself at the Battle of Bull Run. Also, he was the only man to twice receive the Thanks of Congress during the Civil War-first for Chattanooga and second for Atlanta and Savannah. His greatest accomplishment during the Civil War was his “March to the Sea” which destroyed the Confederacies resources using “total war”.
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General William T. Sherman was one of the greatest American army officers ever lived. He launched a campaign from Vicksburg, which had an amusing goal. The goal was to destroy the rail center of Meridian and to clear the central Mississippi of Confederate resistance. His doing had made a great impact on the Civil War; the Union had brought success during the war. He had many accomplishments in the Civil War. His greatest accomplishments was capturing Atlanta and the destruction of the Confederate resources using "total war"; which is the "March to the Sea".
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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 from 1861 to 1865. General Sherman had a big impact on the Civil War, because he was an outstanding leader for the union. His dedication led them to victory and he stand out from the others. Throughout his journey Sherman led his troops Vicksburg to capture Meridian. After he captured Meridian, he began to destroy the railroad and storage facilities while he waits for Smith to arrive. His greatest accomplishment was his March to the Sea where he burned every government and military building in Savannah, Georgia.
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William Sherman was a union General during the Civil War. Sherman was the one that started the campaign for Vicksburg, Mississippi. The goal of this was to have the Mississippi RIver. This was the first attempt that the union had made aiming for total warfare. They did not only aim at military things but also at the will of Southern people. Sherman led thousands of troops to march. Clearly, General Sherman was very important to the Civil War and contributed. He was a very good leader in the union. Even though his plan in the beginning didn't necessarily work about the whole Mississippi thing, he eventually used all the knowledge he acquired from this to tear up Georgia later in the same year.
General Sherman was a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863, which led to the fall of the Confederate armies of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River. General Sherman led “Sherman’s March,” destroying everything in his path, which made the Confederate’s troops lives pretty impossible. He accomplished many things during the Civil War, and is still a very credited person. He had outstanding war strategy and skill. He fought in the Battle of Shiloh, and won. He waited for Smith to arrive at Meridian, but he never made it.
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General William T. Sherman was a businessman, educator author, and most importantly a union general in the civil war. General Sherman gained recognition during his time of commander in the Civil War. There he also gained the name "the first modern general". He was known for his outstanding military strategy and his ways of leading. His many accomplishments in the Civil War made him big. He led the Vicksburg Campain and even fought in the battle Shiloh. General Sherman also published one of the best-known first-hand accounts of the Civil War.
General Sherman was a soldier an educator, author, and a businessman. He served as a general in the Union during the Civil War. He is also One of America’s greatest army officers. General Sherman is mostly known for been the one ordered by Grant to capture Atlanta Georgia in 1864. Sherman led his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, burn down factories, and rail roads. William Sherman fought for the Union in the Western theater of the Civil War, serving under Ulysses S. Grant in the Battle of Shiloh and the Siege of Vicksburg. His greatest accomplishment in the Civil War was the March of Sea.
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General Sherman was a Union General In The civil was who was ordered by grant to capture Atlanta in 1864. He and his troops destroyed factories and railroads. He fought mostly on the west side during the civil war and fought in the battle of Shiloh and in vicksburg. he was also a business man, teacher, and wrote books.
ReplyDeleteOn the 14th of February, 1864, Union General William Sherman marched into Meridian, Mississippi in the middle of heavy rains with about ten thousand troops by his side. His plan was to completely devastate the south by not only attacking the military objectives, but also attacking the "will of the Southern people". He ended up capturing Meridian, but his reinforcements, led by General Smith, didnt reach him in time.
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The campaign wasnt a total waste of time though; During his time in Meridian, Sherman learned how to live off the land and how to strike at the civilian population of the South. He used this knowledge to execute his attack on Georgia with devastating results... This was probably his greatest accomplishment.
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DeleteGeneral William T. Sherman was an General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He also was a sucessful businessman and educated author. Sherman was asked by Grant to capture Atlanta, Georgia in the year 1864. His troops managed to destroy the city, burning down important buildings such as factories, houses, hospitals, etc. That was one of his most important achievements, which made him well known, along with his unique military strategies. He continued with a couple of other sucessful victories, but waited for Smith to arrive at Meridian, but he never made it.
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William T. Sherman is a Union General during the Civil War. In 1864 he was ordered to attack Atlanta, Georgia and to capture it. His plan was to not only finish the objectives but to also destroy anything he could, to devastate the South. He destroyed railroad tracks and more. But his greatest accomplishment has to be completely destroying the city waiting for the arrival of Smith, whom never made it.
ReplyDeleteGeneral William T. was a Union general. He wanted to destroy the rail center at Meridian so he launched a campaign from Vicksburg. He led 25,000 troops east of Vicksburg and ordered 7,000 more troops to come and be led by General William Sooy Smith and they were to march southeast from Memphis. He captured Meridian and destroyed the railroad and storage facilities. He waited for Smith, but he never got to Meridian. On February 21, Confederate troops under General Nathan Bedford Forrest wailed Smith at West Point, and dealt the Federals a resounding defeat. (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sherman-enters-meridian-mississippi) Smith returned to Memphis, and Sherman turned back towards Vicksburg.
ReplyDeleteWilliam T. Sherman was a Union General that led the Mississippi campeign in the year 1864. Leading 25,000 men into Meridian and captured the town. Upon capturing the town, Sherman and his men began to destroy the town's railroad and facilities like arsenals and hospitals. His greatest achievement was burning down Meridian and capturing it from the Confederates. In this process Sherman learned how to use resources from the land to his benefit and how to severely hurt a southern population. Unfortunately Sherman was unable to clear the Mississippi of Confederate rebels but he used what he learn to take on Georgia later that year.
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General William T. Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on February 8th 1820. He launched a campaign from Vicksburg which was very important and was a really good goal which was to destroy the rail center of Meridian and to clear the central Mississippi of Confederate resistance. This had a big impact on the Civil War and helped the Union win the war. His best accomplishments were capturing Atlanta and destroying the Confederate resources during the March of Sea. He was a great leader and the main reason why they won the war.
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DeleteGeneral William T. Sherman was a union Army leader. His goal was to free Federal troops that he hoped to use on his planned campaign against Atlanta, Georgia. This was called the march to the sea campaign To do this he launched the campaign from Vicksburg, Mississippi, with the goal of destroying the rail center at Meridian and clearing central Mississippi of Confederate resistance. Sherman led 25,000 troops east from Vicksburg and ordered another 7,000 under General William Sooy Smith to march southeast from Memphis, Tennessee. Sherman pushed into the city on February 14 and this was Sherman’s greatest accomplishment because his whole plan was to capture Atlanta even though Sherman failed to clear Mississippi of Rebels, and the Confederates.
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General William T. Sherman was born Feb. 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was a Union army general and a pretty important figure in the Civil War. He served under Ulysses S. Grant in the Battle of Bull Run. He also lauched a plan to destroy all the railroads in Southern states, which was very smart. One of his greatest accomplishments was capturing Atlanta, a key city in the Confederacy. He was also a major architect of the modern 'total war' tactic. Which greatly helped the North in the Civil War. He died on Feb. 14, 1891. He was a great leader and an important figure of the Civil War and why the North won.
ReplyDeleteGeneral Sherman or William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio on February 8th, 1820. General Sherman was an American soldier and served as a General in the Union. Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee. Sherman learned how to live off the land, however, and took notes on how to strike a blow against the civilian population of the South. He used that knowledge with devastating results in Georgia later that year.
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ReplyDeleteGeneral William T. Sherman was a general that served for the Union from 1861 through 1865 that captured Meridian, Mississippi in a heavy rainstorm with about ten thousand Union troops, though his reinforcements led by General Smith never made it there on time. His impact on the civil war that helped the Union was his astonishing military strategies and being in campaigns that would help lead to the defeat of the Confederates in Vicksburg, which was an important victory. Though Sherman failed to clear Mississippi of Rebels, he learned how to live off the land, and took notes on how to strike a blow against the civilian population of the South, which helped him with devastating results in Georgia later that year; making this his greatest accomplishment in the Civil War.
General Sherman was a general for the Union. Sherman launched a campaign from Vicksburg, Mississippi, with the intent of eliminating the rail center at Meridian and also clearing central Mississippi of Confederate resistance. He thought this would free Federal troops that he hoped to use on his campaign against Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman then succeeded in destroying the railroads and storage facilities in Meridian. Confederate troops pushed him back towards Vicksburg and he used this knowledge against Georgia but lost. Sherman's greatest accomplishment in the Civil War was his campaign in Atlanta which destroyed the Confederacy's resources.
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General William T. Sherman was a union General who lead a campaign into Mississippi. His impact on the civil war was that in Mississippi he was able to take control of many railroad and storage facilities in the state while he waited for the troops of General Smith to meet with him there. General Smith wouldn’t be able to meet Sherman in Meridian, Mississippi for he was engaged by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his troops on February 21 and defeated General Smith. Sherman’s greatest accomplishment was being able to live off of the land and how to strike a blow against civilians and confederate soldiers which he later used in devastating effect in Mississippi later that year.
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General Sherman was an American solider who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. William T. Sherman was born on February 8, 1820. The impact he had in the Civil War included, when he entered the Mississippi as a prosecutor to “March to the Sea” campaign in Georgia. His goal was to clear “the central Mississippi of Confederate Resistance” of Vicksburg, on the Mississippi River. He led 25,000 troops east from Vicksburg and another 7,000 to march southeast from Memphis, Tennessee. General Sherman’s greatest accomplishment included capturing Atlanta with his troops, which contributed to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Sherman was an American solider, educator, and a General in the Union Army severing under General Grant during the Civil War. His impact in the war was the damage he caused in Meridian when he destroyed the railroad and storage facilities. His greatest accomplishment during the War was when he captured Atlanta which helped the re-election of President Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was one of America's greatest army officers. He was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He served under General Ulysses S. Grant, during which he contributed to the fall of the Confederate Armies of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River in 1862-1863. He also participated in the battle of Shiloh. He was a very smart man and became very widely known for his intelligent and strategic manner of leading his men. He learned from his failures and came back for a second time with greater knowledge. Apart from being a general, he was also an author, businessman and an educator.
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General Sherman was born on February 8, 1820 and died on February 14, 1891. he served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War.he led his troops to victory in atlanta that led to Abraham Lincoln being reelected as President, all this made him a very famous man. His impact was his success of Union side and bringing the civil war to an early end. he was best known for his "March to the Sea" that went from Atlanta, Georgia to the coast at Savannah.Not only that but where he burned every government and military building in Savannah, Georgia.He has amazing military tactics and was a motivator unlike anyone else of his time.
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, educator and author.He was born on February 8, 1820 and died on February 14, 1891.General Sherman was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War.General Sherman lauched a plan to destroy all the railroads in Southern states, which was very smart.He impacted the Civil War by bringing it to an early end.His greatest accomplishment was capturing Atlanta which helped in Abraham Lincolns reelction.
ReplyDeleteGeneral William Tecumseh Sherman was one of the most zealous of all Union Generals, and believed firmly in punishing the South, and removing their will to fight by targeting civilian infrastructure. His methods of warfare later became known as the tactics of total war, or the belief that war isn't only against the troops on the battlefield, but also against the industries and transportation systems that supply them.During the U.S. Civil War, as commander of the Union Army’s division of the Mississippi, William Tecumseh Sherman gathered 100,000 troops for the invasion of Georgia and captured and burned Atlanta and began his devastating March to the Sea to capture Savannah, leaving a trail of near total destruction. Often credited with the saying “War is hell,” he was a major architect of modern total war. Sherman saw more clearly than any other Civil War general that modern warfare was completely unlike its 18th century counterpart. Since the Civil War was a war between free peoples, Sherman maintained that only by breaking the war spirit of the enemy, noncombatant as well as combatant, could victory be won hence the march through Georgia and South Carolina. In fact, he is sometimes credited with reinventing war, stressing the destruction of the infrastructure necessary to support an enemy army more than the killing of its soldiers, and establishing rules of conflict that are still in effect today.
ReplyDeleteGeneral William Sherman was an American soldier and an educator also a General in the Union Army with General Grant during the Civil War. Sherman’s impact towards the war was that he damage and caused and captured Meridian when he destroyed the railroad and storage facilities. William Sherman’s greatest accomplishment during the War was when he captured Atlanta and helped the re-election of President Lincoln.
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General Sherman was one ofthe most known soldiers and later generals of the civil war. He led 25,000 troops east from Vicksburg To Memphis. Sherman was sent to destroy Atlanta and he did that. He basically burnt down the complete city. He also captured Meridian which surprised many. He made his mark on civil war history by the destroying and damaging of Atlanta and the capture of Meridian when he destroyed the railroads and storage areas. His greatest accomplishment was the capturing of Atlanta which led to the reelection of Lincoln.
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General Sherman was a well educated american solider and Union general in the Civil War. Sherman launched the campaign from Vicksburg, Mississippi, with the goal of destroying the rail center at Meridian and clearing central Mississippi of Confederate resistance.He led 25,000 troops east from Vicksburg To Memphis. And ordered another 7,000 under General William Sooy Smith to march southeast from Memphis, Tennessee. His doing had made a great impact on the Civil War; the Union had brought success during the war.Even though his plan didn't work he used in knowledge of the Mississippi later that year in the war.
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William Tecumseh Sherman was born February 8, 1820 was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the union Army during American Civil War in 1861 through 1865. General Sherman's record as a traction was mixed, and his military legacy rests primarily on his commands of logistics and on his brilliance as a strategist. He led 25,000 troops east from Vicksburg and ordered another 7,000 to march southeast from Memphis, Tennessee. After capturing Meridian, Sherman began to destroy the railroad and storage facilities. Sherman failed to clear Mississippi of rebels, and the confederates repaired the rail lines within a month.
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William Tecumseh Sherman was a Union Genral who began as an average man, but would soon become a household in what we now know as the history of the Civil War. This however was no walk in the park. By capturing the Meridian, Sherman was able to punch a hole in the Confederacy's "ego" so to speak. He and his men were able to destroy hospitals, roads, soldiers, etc. The south was effected by this, even though it seemed to be on sucn a small scale. I believe his greatest accomplishment in the Civil War was when he was able to capture Atlanta, Georgia. This was a huge, seemingly insurmountable loss to the South, thus making General Sherman's name well-known
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