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    William Tecumseh Sherman: The Growth Of A Strategist
    William Tecumseh Sherman: The Growth Of A Strategist
    William Tecumseh Sherman: The Growth Of A Strategist
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    William Tecumseh Sherman: The Growth Of A Strategist

    By LTC James M. Diamond US Army

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    This paper examines Sherman’s growth as a strategic thinker and successful strategist. It explores how his life shaped him to fill the role that he did in the Civil War and what things contributed to his development into the soldier who could plan and execute the North’s strategy in the last year of the war. It also focuses on specific instances of success and failure that led him to the position from which he could influence, if not actually author, the strategy followed by the Union in the last year of the war.
    It also examines what Sherman brought to his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant and how that relationship affected the evolving strategy that guided the Union Army after Grant ascended to the leadership of all Union Armies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGolden Springs Publishing
    Release dateNov 6, 2015
    ISBN9781782899334
    William Tecumseh Sherman: The Growth Of A Strategist

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      William Tecumseh Sherman - LTC James M. Diamond US Army

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      Text originally published in 1993 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2014, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      William Tecumseh Sherman: Growth of a Strategist

      by

      James M. Diamond, LTC, USA

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      ABSTRACT 5

      William Tecumseh Sherman: Growth of a Strategist 6

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 27

      Bibliography 28

      ABSTRACT

      This paper examines Sherman’s growth as a strategic thinker and successful strategist. It explores how his life shaped him to fill the role that he did in the Civil War and what things contributed to his development into the soldier who could plan and execute the North’s strategy in the last year of the war. It also focuses on specific instances of success and failure that led him to the position from which he could influence, if not actually author, the strategy followed by the Union in the last year of the war.

      It also examines what Sherman brought to his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant and how that relationship affected the evolving strategy that guided the Union Army after Grant ascended to the leadership of all Union Armies.

      William Tecumseh Sherman: Growth of a Strategist

      In the opening days of the American Civil War strategic thought, in the minds of many who would lead the North’s forces, could be summed up in the three stirring words On to Richmond!

      One who saw beyond that enticing but ultimately false course was William Tecumseh Sherman. How was it that Sherman, who had left the Army in 1853 and was serving as the President of the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy as the war approached, was able to see what the senior military and political leaders of the North could not?

      The way Sherman perceived the coming struggle, what he thought about the ends, means, and ways with which he would labor for those four bloody, terrible years was in part based on his unique personality and in part developed over years of study, travel, and experience. Those thoughts and experiences, distilled by Sherman’s quick, trenchant intellect ultimately produced a strategic vision of ways and means to achieve the military and political ends of the Union in the Civil War.

      Sherman’s successful collaboration with his contemporary and commander,

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