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__html__William Tecumseh Sherman was, in the words of British military historian B. H. Liddell Hart, "the most original genius of the American Civil War" and "the first modern general." Born into a prominent Ohio political family — his father was a state supreme court justice, one brother would become a U.S. senator and another would become a federal judge — Sherman attended West Point and finished sixth in his graduating class. When the future Confederate states began to secede, Sherman was superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy — essentially the…__html__William Tecumseh Sherman was, in the words of British military historian B. H. Liddell Hart, "the most original genius of the American Civil War" and "the first modern general." Born into a prominent Ohio political family — his father was a state supreme court justice, one brother would become a U.S. senator and another would become a federal judge — Sherman attended West Point and finished sixth in his graduating class. When the future Confederate states began to secede, Sherman was superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy — essentially the president of what would become Louisiana State University. But he gave no thought to supporting the nascent rebellion, resigning his post and declaring, prophetically:"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it...Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most poArată mai mult