Article: William T. Sherman: A commanding paradox; Union general's dramatic mixture of virtues, flaws.(SATURDAY)(THE CIVIL WAR)

Byline: Jack Trammell, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman always will be best remembered for his infamous March to the Sea in 1864.

"I can make ... Georgia howl!" he said. "War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." With studied patience, Sherman led his army of 62,000 seasoned veterans on a monthlong orgy of destruction through Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean, and then presented Savannah to President Lincoln as a "Christmas present."

Vilified by Southerners, viewed with indifference and even open hostility by many in the North, Sherman remains today an ...

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