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Summary
William Tecumseh Sherman ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8" class="extiw" title="en:February 8">February 8</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820" class="extiw" title="en:1820">1820</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_14" class="extiw" title="en:February 14">February 14</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891" class="extiw" title="en:1891">1891</a>) was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="extiw" title="en:United States of America">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soldier" class="extiw" title="en:soldier">soldier</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/businessman" class="extiw" title="en:businessman">businessman</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/educator" class="extiw" title="en:educator">educator</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/author" class="extiw" title="en:author">author</a>. He served as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/general" class="extiw" title="en:general">general</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" class="extiw" title="en:United States Army">United States Army</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" class="extiw" title="en:American Civil War">American Civil War</a> (1861–65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/military_strategy" class="extiw" title="en:military strategy">military strategy</a>, and criticism for the harshness of the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scorched_earth" class="extiw" title="en:scorched earth">scorched earth</a>" policies he implemented in conducting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/total_war" class="extiw" title="en:total war">total war</a> against the enemy. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_historian" class="extiw" title="en:Military historian">Military historian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Liddell_Hart" class="extiw" title="en:Basil Liddell Hart">Basil Liddell Hart</a> famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general."<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
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| current | 13:19, 5 January 2017 | | 3,823 × 2,811 (2.11 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <b>William Tecumseh Sherman</b> ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8" class="extiw" title="en:February 8">February 8</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820" class="extiw" title="en:1820">1820</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_14" class="extiw" title="en:February 14">February 14</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891" class="extiw" title="en:1891">1891</a>) was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="extiw" title="en:United States of America">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soldier" class="extiw" title="en:soldier">soldier</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/businessman" class="extiw" title="en:businessman">businessman</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/educator" class="extiw" title="en:educator">educator</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/author" class="extiw" title="en:author">author</a>. He served as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/general" class="extiw" title="en:general">general</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" class="extiw" title="en:United States Army">United States Army</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" class="extiw" title="en:American Civil War">American Civil War</a> (1861–65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/military_strategy" class="extiw" title="en:military strategy">military strategy</a>, and criticism for the harshness of the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scorched_earth" class="extiw" title="en:scorched earth">scorched earth</a>" policies he implemented in conducting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/total_war" class="extiw" title="en:total war">total war</a> against the enemy. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_historian" class="extiw" title="en:Military historian">Military historian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Liddell_Hart" class="extiw" title="en:Basil Liddell Hart">Basil Liddell Hart</a> famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> |
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