Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O’Connell

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-332
Author(s):  
Anne Sarah Rubin
Keyword(s):  
William Tecumseh Sherman

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry S. Laver ◽  
Jeffrey J. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Seminal Work ◽  
Leadership Process ◽  
Successful Leaders ◽  
William Tecumseh Sherman

Few people would challenge the assertion by presidential biographer James MacGregor Burns that “leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.”1 Yet, in the four decades since the publication of Burns’s seminal work Leadership, our understanding of the leadership process has improved tremendously. Among the most important developments is the widespread recognition that successful leaders, operating at any level of responsibility, are not simply endowed at birth with great leadership ability. As General William Tecumseh Sherman once observed, “I have read of men born as generals peculiarly endowed by nature but have never seen one.”...

Dying in the Last Ditch

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-250
Author(s):  
David Silkenat
Keyword(s):  
William Tecumseh Sherman

This chapter examines Confederate surrenders east of the Mississippi after Appomattox Courthouse. It argues that these post-Appomattox surrenders were more complex and contingent than most historians imagine. It focuses on Johnston's surrender to William Tecumseh Sherman at Bennett Place, Jefferson Davis's flight, and why some Confederate soldiers refused to surrender.

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