The diverse war aims the U.S. President has set out amount to a multiple-choice proposition for opponents of his war effort ...

In early 1862, Union generals, soldiers and even the commander in chief of the Civil War were literally at a loss. Morale ran low. Taking the oath of office in March 1861, President Abraham Lincoln of ...

Chief Tecumseh had three brothers and one of them was even more famous than the Shawnee chief — until the last few years of Tecumseh’s life. The famous brother had three names: Lalawethika was his ...

As the founding executive director of LSU’s Louisiana Emerging Technology Center and a current economic development professional, I urge LSU to rename the LETC “Sherman Hall” to honor Gen. William ...

On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta; the campaign ended with the capture of ...

THREE RIVERS, CA (Amazing America) — America is home to the most massive tree on Earth: The General Sherman. The giant sequoia is more than two thousand years old, and around two million people trek ...

William Lee Sherman, 84, was born February 6, 1941 in Buckeye, Iowa, the first son of William Marion and Sybil Sheets Sherman. He died October 27, 2025 of Alzheimer’s-related complications at Luther ...

STARKVILLE — A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University—an effort marking 150 years ...

There is an immense knowledge spectrum when it comes to UCLA sports. The older generations probably know the most, having the largest sample of data that includes living through Westwood’s athletic ...

THE GENERAL WHO MARCHED TO HELL (349 pp.)—Earl Schenck Miers—Knopf ($4.50). GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN INSANE. The headlined scandal broke on Dec. 11, 1861, in the columns of the Cincinnati Commercial ...

CAPTAIN SAM GRANT (512 pp.)—Lloyd Lewis—Little, Brown ($6). When genial, whirlwind Managing Editor Lloyd Downs Lewis emptied out his desk at the Chicago Daily News one day in 1945 and said goodbye to ...