The White Tecumseh. A Biography Of General William T. Sherman

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 475 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Extraordinarily readable." --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. In The White Tecumseh, Stanley Hirshson has crafted a beautiful and rigorous work of scholarship, the only life of Sherman to draw on regimental histories and testimonies by the general's own men. What emerges is a landmark portrait of a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by a family legacy of mental illness and relentlessly driven to realize a powerful military ambition. "Sympathetic yet excellent ...insight into how Sherman's own troops felt about him and his relationships with fellow generals, especially Grant...Highly recommended." --Library Journal

ISBN: 9780471283294