William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891), known as Cump to his friends, was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and memoirist. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies that he implemented in the area of Georgia known as the March to the Sea. William Tecumseh Sherman is translated to Hebrew as ויליאם טקומסה שרמן. In Spanish, he is known as William Tecumseh Sherman, and in French, he is referred to as William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman brought the American Civil War to an end by accepting the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. He had been instrumental in the Union's victory in the war in the west, for which Ulysses S. Grant, his close friend and eventual commanding general of the Union Army, praised him in his memoirs. Grant would later become the 18th President of the United States. Sherman served as the Commanding General of the U.S. Army (1869–83) and developed the concept of total war in the late 19th century. He wrote a memoir, Memoirs of General William Sherman, in 1875, detailing his experiences. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, and raised in Lancaster and later in nearby Mansfield. Sherman was a student at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, from 1836 to 1840, when he graduated sixth in his class.