{"product_id":"the-white-tecumseh-isbn-9780471283294","title":"The White Tecumseh","description":"\"Extraordinarily readable.\" --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. In The White Tecumseh, Stanley Hirshson has crafted a beautiful and rigorous work of scholarship, the only life of Sherman to draw on regimental histories and testimonies by the general's own men. What emerges is a landmark portrait of a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by a family legacy of mental illness and relentlessly driven to realize a powerful military ambition.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Sympathetic yet excellent . . . insight into how Sherman's own troops felt about him and his relationships with fellow generals, especially Grant. . . . Highly recommended.\" --Library Journal  Of Raymonds and Streets, Hoyts and Shermans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Beside the Still Waters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I Regret I Ever Left the Army.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Yankee in Rebeldom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Insanity of the South--and of Uncle Charles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hamlet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Same Game as at Bull Run.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bad Day at Chickasaw.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vicksburg and Sherman's First March.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Willy, Chattanooga, and Knoxville.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Commander of the Armies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"We Must Kill Those Three Hundred Thousand.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A Scene I Pray My Eyes May Never See Again.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Gone to Join Willy.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Carolinas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I Will Take a Regiment of My Old Division and Clear Them All Out.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Whatever We Do Here Causes Death.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At War With Grant.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Of Lizzie and Tom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Extreme Unction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sherman: A Brief Assessment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Manuscripts Cited.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. STANLEY P. HIRSHSON is Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans and the Southern Negro, 1877-1893. He lives in Closter, New Jersey.  \"Extraordinarily readable.\" —Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee  \u003cp\u003eBest remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. In The White Tecumseh, Stanley Hirshson has crafted a beautiful and rigorous work of scholarship, the only life of Sherman to draw on regimental histories and testimonies by the general's own men. What emerges is a landmark portrait of a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by a family legacy of mental illness and relentlessly driven to realize a powerful military ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sympathetic yet excellent . . . insight into how Sherman's own troops felt about him and his relationships with fellow generals, especially Grant. . . . Highly recommended.\" —Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990366765285,"sku":"NP9780471283294","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471283294.jpg?v=1761787535","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-white-tecumseh-isbn-9780471283294","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}