Thanks to all of you who are responding the post on General Sherman’s birthday.  Several have asked where to find more information on him=.  You can read any of a number of books on General Sherman.  Here are a few I use:
“Grant & Sherman: The Friendship That Won The Civil War” by Charles Bracelen Flood
“Fierce Prophet: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman” by Robert L. O’Connell
“Sherman: Fighting Prophet” by Lloyd Lewis
“Memoirs of General William T. Sherman” by William S. McFeely
“The General Who Marched To Hell – Sherman And The Southern Campaign” by Earl Schenck Miers
“Sherman’s Other War: The General and the Civil War Press” by John F. Marszalek
“Worthy Opponents: William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston” by Edward G. Longacre
“The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, & the Americans” by Charles Royster