The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
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Gordon Berg, History Net [T]his deeply researched and deftly argued investigation will likely prove to be the definitive one for the foreseeable future....[Holden] Reid carefully connects Sherman's personality traits to his military strengths and weaknesses.
Zachery A. Fry, Military History Review Brian Holden Reid offers us a wide-ranging biography that serves the field well by placing Sherman within the larger military, political, and intellectual forces of the nineteenth centuryin the process helping to restore an oftmaligned historical figure to his rightful place as a supreme military thinker.
Paul Lay, History Today Military history with a twist... A complicated portrait of a complex man in a nation at war.
Library Journal In this compelling and lucid reassessment of William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-91), Reid (King's Coll. London; America's Civil War) dispels the myths and misreadings of the commanding general of the Union Army and, later, secretary of war, recasting him as a man of wide intellectual interests who understood that winning demanded strategic vision and assiduous planning. Reid's Sherman grew from an officer unsure of himself to a confident general at once bold in thought, meticulous in planning, and deft and decisive in action....Sometimes argumentative but always insightful, this study of Sherman ranks among the best renderings of the man and the conduct of the Civil War, and will help readers reconsider Sherman's character and the discipline necessary to succeed in war.
Julian Thompson, RUSI Journal It would be hard to find an author better qualified to write a study of the American Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman, than Brian Holden Reid. He is a master historian and the preeminent British scholar of that war, who has walked many of its battlefields and written extensively on the subject...Holden Reid's assessment of Sherman reflects his own experience as a mentor in the operational art... Holden Reid's study of Sherman is as perfect as one could wish. He has captured the essence of a great commander and a fascinating human being
Allen Guelzo, First Things Holden Reid...is skeptical of the provincialism that characterizes many American histories of the Civil War. The moment one places the March to the Sea in the overall context of nineteenth-century warfare in Europe and elsewhere, the impression of Sherman's unprecedented brutality fades away... Holden Reid's concluding chapter... is a gem of scholarly military analysis worth the price of the book.
Mitchell G. Klingenberg, Parameters Holden Reid probes Sherman's intellect and moves the iconic figure beyond familiar conversations of total war; he assesses Sherman's US Army career at various command echelons from the bottom up to see Sherman's successes and failures at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war. On the subject o...
Brian Holden Reid is Professor of American History and Military Institutions at King's College London. He is the author of Robert E. Lee: Icon of a Nation, The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century, and America's Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861-1863, among other books. In 2019, he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History for his contributions to the field.
Preface Introduction Part 1: Formtive Years, 1822-1861 Chapter 1: Origin and Evolution of the Sherman Species, 1600-1840 Chapter 2: Leaping the Mark: Soldier or Civilian? 1840-1852 Chapter 3: Unfortunate Civilian, 1853-1861 Part 2: Working His Way, March 1861-March 1864 Chapter 4: Brigade Commander, March-August 1861 Chaper 5: Departmental Commander--and Disaster, August-December 1861 Chapter 6: Divisional Commander, January-July 1862 Chapter 7: Corps Commander, July-December 1862 Chapter 8: From Corps Command to Army Command, January-December 1863 Chapter 9: Army Command, October 1863-March 1864 Part 3: Command of the Military Division of the Mississippi Chapter 10: First Contact, March-May 1864 Chapter 11: Over the Chattahoochee, May-July 1864 Chapter 12: Slogging on to Atlanta, July-September 1864 Chapter 13: Marching on to Savannah, September-December 1864 Chapter 14: Marching to Victory, December 1864-April 1865 Part 4: Things Will Never Be the Same Again: The Reckoning Chapter 15: Indian Fighter and Reluctant Negotiator, 1865-1869 Chapter 16: Commanding General of the Army, 1865-1884 Chapter 17: Retirement of a Kind, 1884-1891 Conclusion: Weighed in the Balance and Not Found Wanting Notes Bibliography Index