01217cam a2200241 4500 127246054 TxAuBib 20120228120000.0 930310s1990||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780940450653 0940450658 TxAuBib Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman [R - Regular] / William T Sherman. Viking Press, 1990. 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm. Library of America, The Hailed as a prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it," he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges and a fascinating, eerie account of the famous march through the Carolinas. Generals United States Biography. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives. The Library of America.