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According to Earl Schenck Miers in The General Who Marched to Hell, the struggles of Sherman's mind within itself were as violent as the slashing offensives he launched against the Confederacy. Both campaigns, says Author Miers, had to be won before Sherman could celebrate the triumph of his career, the decisive march through Georgia...
Hostile journalists actually thought they had evidence of Sherman's insanity. In the midst of a slow, steady advance toward the Cumberland Gap, the report went, Sherman began to imagine shadowy Confederate cavalrymen in the obscure offing. He ordered a halt, then pulled back in alarm, all quite needlessly...
...William Tecumseh Sherman was far from insane. Though he certainly overestimated the forces facing him in Kentucky, he was in many respects the most brilliant commander the Union had, and one of the few who saw the war from its beginning as a brutal, hellish struggle to the death. Sherman's trouble was that his mind was all too subtly balanced, that he was a man of imagination as well...
Gold-Rush Days. "Cump" Sherman's "nervous-sanguine temperament" showed itself early in his Ohio boyhood. He so hated his red hair that he tried to dye it black, and succeeded only in producing an unhealthy shade of green. At 16, looking to his Eastern relatives like "an untamed animal just caught in the Far West," Sherman entered West Point, and at 20 he was graduated, "standing highest in engineering, geology, rhetoric, mental philosophy, and demerits...
...next 20 years brought a series of failures. Sherman quit the Army after the Mexican War (which he was obliged to sit out ingloriously in California), and floundered about in the gold-rush boom. In 1859 ne took the job of superintendent of Louisiana's state military academy, but threw up the post three months before the attack on Fort Sumter, and became a colonel in the Union Army...