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Image:Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidlifedeedsofgener02nort) Year: 1891 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1891) (1890s (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890) ) Authors:  Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorNorthrop__Henry_Davenport__1836_1909) Subjects:  Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectSherman__William_T___William_Tecumseh___1820_1891) Generals (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectGenerals) Publisher:  Philadelphia, National publishing co (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherPhiladelphia__National_publishing_co) Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorThe_Library_of_Congress) Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorSloan_Foundation) Text Appearing Before Image: sition againstthe Confederates, who they were certain were attheir heels. Sherman about this time had trouble withsome of his ninety-day men, who wanted to returnhome. Mr. Lincoln visited the camp one day, whenone of the officers stepped up to the Presidents car-riage, in which Sherman was seated with him, andsaid: Mr. President I have a cause of erievance.This morning I went to speak to Colonel Sherman,and he threatened to shoot me. Mr. Lincoln repeatedinterrogatively the words, Threatened to shootyou ? — Yes, sir, he threatened to shoot me. Mr.Lincoln looked at him and then at Sherman, andbending his tall, spare form toward the officer, said tohim in a loud stage-whisper, that could be easily heardat some distance, Well, if I were you, and he threat-ened to shoot, I would not trust him, for I believe hewould do it. The officer disappeared amid thelaughter of all who were around. During the anxious August days after the battle ofBull Run, while Sherman was drilling and disciplining Text Appearing After Image: GENERAL SHERMAN AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR. 18( 186 GENERAL SHERMAN. the raw regiments under him and getting ready to dohis part in repulsing the attack that was almost hourlyexpected, he received a note from General Robert An-derson asking him to call on him in Washington.Anderson explained that the Administration was be-coming alarmed about Kentucky, where matters wererapidly approaching a grave crisis. The Legislaturewas in session, and was ready, as soon as supportedby the General Government, to take measures thatwould keep the State in the Union. It had been de-termined, therefore, to organize a new military depart-ment, to be known as the Department of the Cum-berland, and to embrace Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. Critical Situation in Kentucky. Anderson said he had been offered the command,had accepted it, and wanted help. The Presidentagreed that he should select four of the brigadiers,and he wanted Sherman to be one of them and to behis right-hand man. Anderson had been the captai Fierce Patriot: 2of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_1?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Robert+O%27Connell) (Author), Andrew Garman (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_2?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Andrew+Garman) (Narrator), & 1 more (https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorr#) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorr With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History.