Dandy Yankees dawdling Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman. By Robert O’Connell. Random House; 404 pages; $28. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE American South will never forget William Tecumseh Sherman. One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1864, General Sherman led an army of 60,000 northerners through Georgia and the Carolinas, burning Atlanta and foraging off the land. He aimed to shatter the Confederates into submission and to hasten the end of the civil war. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” endures as one of the most memorable, and innovative, campaigns of the four-year conflict.Yet Sherman (pictured above right), a military man for most of his career, had come perilously close to missing the action. An earlier command in Kentucky had gone badly, as he fought depression and the press bashed him as insane. An alignment with General Ulysses Grant, who emerged as...
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