COLUMBUS — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase ...

The sword and trunk used by Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman during the Civil War are going to auction at Fleischer’s Auctions on Tuesday. Sherman is best known for torching Atlanta in 1864 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sherman, who lived from 1820 to 1891, concluded that war – what the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz defined as “an ...

A modest home in what is now downtown Lancaster offers a window into the early life of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, a U.S.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history. The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are ...

Some 500 pieces of American history unseen even by scholars are coming to light through an auction taking place through Fleischer’s Auctions of Columbus. The two-day auction, “Civil War & African ...

At first, it was the rare binding that caught the eye of Danielle Linn, a senior book specialist with Fleischer’s Auctions. While cataloging items once owned by the Union Army General, William ...

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

During the American Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman led Union forces through Georgia in a campaign of total war. Historical images and records document the destruction left behind.