Stanley, William Tecumseh Sherman ... However, the West Point graduate didn't always seem a likely choice for fame. Sherman's career history was as hilly as the streets in his first post-service ...

Sherman, died, and his mother, Mary Hoyt Sherman, couldn't support ... when he was young—family members called him “Cump." 2. William Tecumseh Sherman excelled at West Point.

Out in the West, Grant and Sherman began streamlining and eventually ... But in warfare, increased mobility reaches a point where it ceases to be an incremental or quantitative advantage and ...

The Army and Navy Journal says: "The annual examination of the cadets of the Military Academy at West Point excites unusual ... GRANT and Maj.-Gen. SHERMAN -- have improved the occasion of the ...

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 ...

He wasn't popular in the South at the Civil War's end, and in many ways, he still isn't. But that didn't keep Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman from ... having graduated West Point in 1840 and serving ...

After being born in and growing up in Lancaster, east of Columbus, William T. Sherman joined the U.S. Army, graduating from West Point in 1840. He accepted posts around the country and later ...

General William ... Sherman's uniform’s rank insignia worn during the Civil War, a family Bible and his personal, annotated copy of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. Sherman, a West Point graduate ...