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'''William Tecumseh Sherman''' (Lancaster, Ohio, 1820 – New York, 1891) was a Union [[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[general]] known for his daring and aggressive military tactics.  His "scorched earth" policy of total warfare was designed to ensure the economic, strategic, and psychological collapse of the [[Confederacy]] by destroying civilian infrastructure and supplies.

'''William Tecumseh Sherman''' (Lancaster, Ohio, 1820 – New York, 1891) was a Union [[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[general]] known for his daring and aggressive military tactics.  His "scorched earth" policy of total warfare was designed to ensure the economic, strategic, and psychological collapse of the [[Confederacy]] by destroying civilian infrastructure and supplies.

==Early life and pre-Civil War career==

==Prewar career==

Sherman was a [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] graduate. He was deployed to [[Florida]] in the Seminole war, and to [[California]] during the [[Mexican War]]. He resigned from the Army in 1953 and without much success became a banker and a lawyer (admitted to the bar in Kansas City without examination "on the ground of general intelligence"). In 1859 he became first superintendent of the ''Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy'', the later Louisiana State University. When secession loomed, Sherman quit his job and moved North.  

Sherman was a [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] graduate. He was deployed to [[Florida]] in the Seminole war, and to [[California]] after the [[Mexican War]]. He had almost no combat experience.

 

Sherman resigned from the Army in 1853 and without much success became a banker and a lawyer (admitted to the bar in Kansas City without examination "on the ground of general intelligence"). In 1859 he became first superintendent of the ''Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy'', the later Louisiana State University. He never bought a slave and when secession loomed, Sherman quit his job and moved North, after warning Southerners that it was folly to war against the much more powerful North.

==Civil War==

==Civil War==