This auction is for an original 1891 edition of the "MEMOIRS OF GEN. W. T. SHERMAN" written by himself.  YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!!  This edition consists of both VOLUME I & II combined into one book making it COMPLETE!!! Earlier editions were published in two separate volumes. A brief concluding chapter has been compiled and added to this edition touching upon Sherman's last illness, death, and funeral.  The family of General Sherman are responsible to the public for the accuracy of this chapter.  This is the most complete and accurate edition of Sherman's Memoirs having been revised and corrected by the Honorable James G. Blaine, at the request and consent of the Sherman family. William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the enemy. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general." Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed decisively to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. He accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in April 1865. After the Civil War, Sherman became Commanding General of the Army (1869–83). As such, he was responsible for the conduct of the Indian Wars in the western United States. He steadfastly refused to be drawn into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the best-known firsthand accounts of the Civil War. This book is filled with 955 very informative pages of the detailed history of the Civil War, as told by General W. T. Sherman himself. The frontis PORTRAIT OF GENERAL SHERMAN! is a fine steel engraving! Published in 1891, this book is in  FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION! for its age and especially to be 117 YEARS OLD!!! ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT!!! and tightly bound with NO TEARS!!! The most significant flaws are cracked hinges and mild dampstain on the front free endpapers, frontis and title.  Otherwise, foxing is severely minimal, the text is neat and clean, and the binding is firm.  If you would like the detailed history of the Civil War, as told by General Sherman himself, you should bid to win this book! GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!  We accept personal checks and money orders only.  NO PAYPAL.  

The March to the Sea was the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the Civil War. It began in Atlanta on November 15, 1864, and concluded in Savannah on December 21, 1864. In preparing for the long march before him, General William Tecumseh Sherman left behind all disabled or weak men, and made up a fine army of 60,000 seasoned veterans, of whom 5,000 were cavalry. The army was to feed itself on the country. Each brigade had a party of foragers, called "bummers." These men were instructed to take all necessary provisions, horses and mules, but were ordered not to enter dwellings, nor insult the people, and were told to leave a part of their property to every family, so that none would be destitute. Where the army was not opposed, Sherman ordered that mills, cotton gins and houses should not be destroyed; but they were to be burned, if resistance were made. All these orders were very badly obeyed, no effort seemingly having been made to enforce the instructions. General William T. Sherman abandoned his supply line and marched across Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean to show the Confederate people that its government could not protect them from intruders. Practicing psychological warfare, he believed that by marching an army across Georgia he would demonstrate to the world that the Union had a power the Confederacy could not defend against. "This may not be war," he said, "but rather statesmanship."