MILITARY PERSONNEL

William Tecumseh Sherman

1820 - 1891

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William Tecumseh Sherman ( tih-KUM-sə; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), earning recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of his scorched-earth policies, which he implemented in his military campaign against the Confederate States. British military theorist and historian B. H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Tecumseh Sherman has received more than 7,470,630 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. William Tecumseh Sherman is the 577th most popular military personnel (down from 398th in 2019), the 1,651st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,110th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Military Personnel.

He was a Union general during the Civil War. He is most famous for leading the March to the Sea, in which he led his troops to Savannah, Georgia and destroyed everything in his path.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Tecumseh Sherman ranks 577 out of 2,058. Before him are Filipp Golikov, Georg Stumme, Woodes Rogers, Zhou Tai, Zhuge Jin, and Rüdiger von der Goltz. After him are Giorgio Basta, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Deng Ai, Aleksei Antonov, Elyesa Bazna, and John Hanning Speke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, William Tecumseh Sherman ranks 23. Before him are Mathilde Bonaparte, Edmond Becquerel, Heungseon Daewongun, Yaqub Beg, John Tyndall, and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. After him are John Tenniel, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Édouard Roche, Şevkefza Kadın, Eugène Fromentin, and Jeanne Duval. Among people deceased in 1891, William Tecumseh Sherman ranks 33. Before him are Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Princess Cecilie of Baden, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Ernest Meissonier, Kalākaua, and Johan Jongkind. After him are Joseph Petzval, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Leon Pinsker, Joseph E. Johnston, and Théodore de Banville.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Tecumseh Sherman ranks 1,651 out of 20,380. Before him are Larry Holmes (1949), Annie Leibovitz (1949), Jack Black (1969), Diane Arbus (1923), William Morris Davis (1850), and Lee J. Cobb (1911). After him are Don Rosa (1951), Vincent D'Onofrio (1959), David O. Selznick (1902), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Sixto Rodriguez (1942), and Richard Jordan Gatling (1818).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, William Tecumseh Sherman ranks 23. Before him are William Westmoreland (1914), Stonewall Jackson (1824), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Creighton Abrams (1914), Paul Revere (1735), and Raymond A. Spruance (1886). After him are Husband E. Kimmel (1882), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), Mark W. Clark (1896), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Abner Doubleday (1819), and James Bowie (1796).

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