William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (8 Februari 1820 – 14 Februari 1891) ialah seorang soldadu, ahli perniagaan, pendidik dan penulis Amerika.  Beliau berkhidmat sebagai seorang Jeneral dalam Tentera Union semasa Perang Saudara Amerika (1861–65).  Dalam kempen tersebut, Sherman mendapat pengiktirafan buat keterampilannya dengan strategi ketenteraan dan juga cemuhan kerana kekerasan polisi "bumi hangus" yang dilaksanakannya semasa menjalankan perang total terhadap Negeri-negeri Gabungan.One historian has written that Sherman's "genius" for "strategy and logistics ... made him one of the foremost architects of Union victory."  Steven E. Woodworth, Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 631.For a very critical study of Sherman, see John B. Walters, Merchant of Terror: General Sherman and Total War (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973). Ahli sejarah ketenteraan, B. H. Liddell Hart mengatakan bahawa Sherman "jeneral moden pertama".Liddell Hart, p. 430.

Sherman berkhidmat di bawah Jeneral Ulysses S. Grant pada tahun 1862 dan 1863 semasa kempen-kempen yang membawa kepada kejatuhan kubu kuat Gabungan di Vicksburg di Sungai Mississippi dan berkesudahan dengan kekalahan tentera Gabungan di negeri Tennessee.  Pada tahun 1864, Sherman menggantikan Grant sebagai panglima Tentera Kesatuan di kancah barat peperangan.  Beliau seterusnya memimpin tentera menawan bandar Atlanta, suatu kemenangan yang membantu kejayaan pemilihan semula Abraham Lincoln sebagai Presiden Amerika Syarikat pada tahun 1864.  Kemaraan Sherman merentasi Georgia dan Carolina melemahkan lagi keupayaan Gabungan untuk terus berperang.   Beliau menerima penyerahan kalah tentera-tentera Gabungan di negeri-negeri Carolina, Georgia dan Florida pada bulan April 1865.

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+ Lencana  Pangkat  Tarikh  KomponenTiada lencana  Kadet, USMA  July 1, 1836  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background|75px  Second Lieutenant  July 1, 1840  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and a yellow vertical bar at both ends|75px  First Lieutenant  November 30, 1841  Regular Armyalt=alt=An insignia with a navy blue background and two yellow vertical bars at both ends|75px  Brevet Captain  May 30, 1848  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and three yellow vertical bars at both ends|75px  Captain  September 27, 1850  Regular Army(Resigned September 6, 1853.)alt=An insignia with a navy blue background and a silver eagle|75px  Colonel  May 14, 1861  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and a silver star in the middle|75px  Brigadier General  May 17, 1861  Volunteersalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and two silver stars|75px  Major General  May 1, 1862  Volunteersalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and a silver star in the middle|75px  Brigadier General  July 4, 1863  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and two silver stars|75px  Major General  August 12, 1864  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and three silver stars|75px  Lieutenant General  July 25, 1866  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and a silver star, a gold eagle, and another silver star|75px  General  March 4, 1869  Regular Armyalt=An insignia with a navy blue background and a silver star, a gold eagle, and another silver star|75px  General  February 8, 1884  Retired Source: 

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