Sherman’s army moved quickly through the state heading from Atlanta to Savannah, burning everything in the path sixty miles wide on the three hundred miles trek to the coast. On his way to Atlanta to Savannah, Sherman destroys all military targets and the civilian economic system…
Sherman’s March was a march lead by General William T. Sherman. During this march he lead 100,000 soldiers from Tennessee to Atlanta , Georgia. The purpose of Sherman’s March was to destroy Confederate industries and railroads. This march affected the Civil War because Confederate troops now had no railroads for fast transport of troops. Also, the Confederates now had no way to make goods because the Union had destroyed their industries and factories. If this didn’t happen, the Confederates could have sent their troops through their railroads to attack the Union. This could have majorly changed the outcome of the war. The Union could have been attacked and the Confederates could have gained more land. Lincoln needed a victory from the union…
Historians have argued inconclusively for years over the prime reason for Confederate defeat in the Civil War. The book Why the North Won the Civil War outlines five of the most agreed upon causes of Southern defeat, each written by a highly esteemed American historian. The author of each essay does acknowledge and discuss the views of the other authors. However, each author also goes on to explain their botheration and disagreement with their opposition. The purpose of this essay is to summarize each of the five arguments presented by Richard N. Current, T. Harry Williams, Norman A. Graebner, David Herbert Donald, and David M. Potter. Each author gives his insight on one of the following five reasons: economic, military, diplomatic, social, and political, respectively.…
proposed using the “scorched earth” tactic, which was to destroy all resources in front of him to prevent him from using them. The intended effect would be to starve Sherman and his Army. However, because the Confederates did not know where he was going, they were unable to get in front of him. The scorched earth tactic was abandoned as the Confederates realized they could not destroy the entire south. Sherman was essentially, left unchallenged.…
Old tactics and training became inefficient with the introduction of these modern weapons. Thus, the U.S Civil war became unparalleled in the advancement of military history. The war became the first to utilize rail and water ways combined with armored ships to create a battlefield stretching thousands of miles. The Union, in 1864, was the side to truly embrace this new technology coupled with older tactics to create a brilliant plan under the leadership of Grant. It was a three pronged attack strategy that would result in the military campaign to end the Civil…
On April 9, 1942 the 76,000 defenders of Bataan surrendered to the Japanese forces. The Japanese then forced their captives to march 65 miles to internment camps which took approximately 10 days. Before the captured soldiers arrived to the camps approximately 10,000 of them died or were killed off by the Japanese. The defeat of Bataan was a reminder of the imperfections in American military…
There are constant debates on why did the South lose the Civil War. The Civil War ended 150 years ago but that has not affected historians to question the outcome of the war for the Confederacy. According to Gary Gallagher, many historians work backward starting from Appomattox to explain the failure of the war. He continues by stating that those historians claim the reasoning for the failure was caused by the lack will to win the war by the Confederates. Gary Gallagher disagrees with these methods historians use. Gary Gallagher believes that the best way to understand why the Confederates lost the Civil War takes a different approach. This is Gary W. Gallagher’s thesis in his The Confederate War is “Why did so many Confederates fight for so long? Until this question receives the detailed attention long accorded the first, the history of the Confederacy will remain imperfectly understood” (17).…
In Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, it reveals Sherman letters to the Union generals. Sherman letter to General Ulysses S. Grant, commander in chief of all Union forces in the Civil War, he discusses his belief about the size of armies and how that plays into of the nature modern warfare. “We ought to ask our country for the largest possible armies that can be raised...” (McFeely 114). Sherman feels it is important thing as the self- existence of a great nation should not chance war (114). He believes the bigger the army the better. The letter to General John Bell Hood, commander of Confederate Army of Tennessee, discusses their wrangle over the city of Atlanta. Sherman has deemed that citizens now residing in Atlanta should remove. Since Sherman believes that Atlanta is no place for families and his real reasons are they want all houses of Atlanta for military storage and occupation and to contract the lines of defense. Because of these reasons he is providing food and transportation for further north and transportation by cars for Rough and Ready. Sherman letter to General Hood is hoping this proposition of his meets Hood views. Hood response to Sherman letter was he does not consider that he has any alternative in this matter. He describes Sherman removing proposal as “the “unprecedented” measures transcends, in studied and ingenious cruelty, all acts ever before brought to my attention in the dark history of war” (119). Sherman justifies his “unprecedented” measures by referring to General Johnston whom very wise and properly removed the families all the way from Dalton down. Sherman also feels it was unnecessary to appeal to the dark history, when recant and modern examples are so handy. Sherman feels he has not once judged General Hood for his cruelty, so why is his proposal a major concern. “I ask you not to appeal to a just God in such a sacrilegious manner: You who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a…
It was now 1859 and tensions between the North and the South had become more and more apparent. Living in the South, Sherman had begun to notice fears in a lot of the southerners about slave revolts, fanatical abolitionists (like John Brown), and fears of secession. However with all these fears, Sherman’s first year at the Academy went surprisingly well. In a letter he wrote to his wife at this time he predicted what a Civil War would mean to his country saying “ If attempted we will have a Civil War of the most horrible Kind.”(Flood) However this was not Sherman’s only prophecy of a Civil War. In Lloyd Lewis’ book, Sherman: Fighting Prophet he uses a letter Sherman wrote to a fellow professor the Louisiana State Seminary, David F. Boyd. The letter…
Sherman’s attitude to the Confederate forces was a key aspect in the result of a Union Victory. Sherman admired the Southern forces and wrote in a letter to his wife in 1864, describing the Confederate forces. “The devils seem to have a determination that cannot but be admired. No amount of poverty or adversity seems to shake their faith.” Sherman’s view on the Southern spirit would play a significant role in the way Sherman attempted to overcome these forces. Sherman’s subsequent actions after his letter to his wife accentuated his belief that severe measures were necessary to break the dogged Confederate resistance.…
All the reasons have a tendency, in the author's point of view, to point to the Republican administration of the Union on the need for drastic change in the leadership of military operations, and the general approach to military and domestic policies. This is especially true of the President Lincoln, whose authority grew, and the government during the war was almost unlimited. The political analysis of the situation of the war years provided throughout the book is not the key purpose of the author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening. The real aim of Goodheart (2011) is to present it fluently as it would be frivolous and arrogant in relation to this complex, multi-dimensional process. To understand the situation of those difficult years, to understand a complex set of problems which confronted Lincoln and his administration, is possible only if a reader grasps as much as possible, in order to break through…
William Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. Sherman served as a General in the Union during the civil war. In 1864, General Sherman went ahead to lead his troops to the city of Atlanta. In all he received recognition for his military. Mrs. Thomas Burge wrote a journal called “A Women’s Wartime Journal.” In her recording you see that the Yankees constantly came to their town taking what was not their own such as food and money. In Georgia’s springtime, she described the air as a “tonic vapor,” which was taken from the earth from pine trees, tulip trees, and more.…
I cannot mark the passage of time exactly, but the report came that Sherman was advancing, and there came awful rumors of what he was doing and would do. We made long homespun bags, quite narrow, and with a strong waistband, and a strong button, to be worn under the skirts. And into these we put all our treasures. Things in the Confederacy were getting worse and worse. The Yankees were reported nearer and nearer. Confederate Soldiers came by the house and told us to destroy all the whisky we had. When the Yankees came everything would be seized by the enemy. After taking all they wanted they left and continued marching on, burning Columbia and leaving a trail of desolation where they passed. 1…
The Tiger was in general a much more powerful and tough tank to bring down than the M4 Sherman, however this statement does not tell the whole story. Production of the Tiger and the durability was less efficient than the M4 Sherman, which gave the Allies a huge advantage. In addition to the production advantages that the M4 Sherman had over the Tiger, there were several other small factors that contributed to the M4 Shermans effectiveness and resilience.…
PAPERS: You will be required to write two three-to-five page BOOK REVIEWS (not book reports!) based on a book you have read (Please refer to the accompanying bibliography). Please choose a book on a topic that interests you and read it. More information will follow.…