Kentucky Civil War Dispatch - William Tecumseh Sherman

Published: Oct. 14, 2011, 4 a.m.

Among the great figures of American Civil War history to tread the Bluegrass is a military man not commonly associated with the Commonwealth: William Tecumseh Sherman. On today's Kentucky Civil War Dispatch, we'll hear that after a lukewarm showing at Virginia's 1st Battle of Bull Run, but before making his reputation at Shiloh, Tennessee, Sherman had a bit of a rough time in the Bluegrass State.