Sherman— master of the situation
the fame of Sherman's grand marches
his great ability as a stratwriters have attempted to explain and justify Sherman's action in taking with him so large an army,ho had loudly proclaimed his purpose to drive Sherman out of Georgia, and protect that State from aast for that purpose.
If that had been done, Sherman could have marched to Augusta, there replenis perceived instantly the full significance of Sherman's change of base to Savannah the moment that an started.
The first thought suggested to Sherman by Hood's movement leaving open the road to Ms one of the points in both Grant's plans and Sherman's was merely an incident, and a very unimports clearly enough what kind of modification of Sherman's tactical methods was requisite to enable him to reach the same result in Georgia.
Sherman's tactical operations during the entire Atlanta cdversary in command of a superior force.
But Sherman's own knowledge of his own impulsive nature m[91 more...]