William T. Sherman

Examples of William T. Sherman in the following topics:

• Union Victories in the Western Theater

  • He also had two able subordinates: Major Generals William J.
  • William T.
  • The next major event, Sherman's Savannah Campaign , popularly known as the March to the Sea.
  • This induced him to send a message to Sherman requesting terms for surrender.
  • Map of the Savannah Campaign (Sherman's March to the Sea) of the American Civil War.

• The Battle of Chattanooga

  • In September 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland, under Major General William S.
  • On November 25, General William T.
  • Sherman's attack on Bragg's right flank made little progress.
  • Bragg's defeat eliminated the last Confederate stronghold in Tennessee and opened the door to an invasion of the Deep South, leading to Sherman's Atlanta Campaign of 1864.
  • The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign and the Army of the Cumberland.

• Lee's Surrender at Appomattox

  • Johnston and his armies to Major General William T.
  • Sherman on April 26, 1865, at Bennett Place.
  • The conditions of surrender were laid out in a document called, "Terms of a Military Convention," signed by Sherman, Johnston, and Grant at Raleigh, North Carolina.

• Siege of Vicksburg

  • Grant initially planned a two-pronged approach, in which half of his army, under Major General William T.
  • Sherman, would advance to the Yazoo River and attempt to reach Vicksburg from the northeast, while Grant took the remainder of the army down the Mississippi Central Railroad.

• Sherman's March

  • Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman and Lieutenant General Ulysses S.
  • Sherman's "March to the Sea" is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted around Georgia from November 15, 1864, to December 21, 1864, by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
  • Sherman was blocked from linking up with the U.S.
  • Sherman's scorched earth policies remain highly controversial, and many Southerners have long reviled Sherman's memory.
  • Assess the objectives, pros, and cons of Sherman's "March to the Sea"

• From Roosevelt to Taft

  • In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft to run against Democratic candidate William Bryan.
  • The United States presidential election of 1908 was between Republican party candidate William Howard Taft and Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
  • On their side, the Democrats, after badly losing the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley.
  • Blue denotes states won by Bryan/Kern, Red denotes those won by Taft/Sherman.

• Regulation

  • Congress enacted a law regulating railroads in 1887 (the Interstate Commerce Act), and one preventing large firms from controlling a single industry in 1890 (the Sherman Antitrust Act).
  • Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft supported trust-busting.
  • The Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law passed by Congress in 1890.
  • President Theodore Roosevelt sued 45 companies under the Sherman Act, while William Howard Taft sued 75.
  • In 1911 the Supreme Court agreed that in recent years (1900–1904) Standard had violated the Sherman Act.

• Rockefeller and the Oil Industry

  • Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, silent partner Stephen V.
  • Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings, who had married the sister of William Rockefeller's wife.
  • In 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act — the source of all American anti-monopoly laws.
  • In 1909, the US Department of Justice sued Standard under federal anti-trust law, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, for sustaining a monopoly and restraining interstate commerce.
  • On May 15, 1911, the US Supreme Court upheld the lower court judgment and declared the Standard Oil group to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

• The Confederacy's Defeat

  • William Tecumseh Sherman in command of most of the western armies.
  • Grant understood the concept of total war and believed, along with Lincoln and Sherman, that only the utter defeat of Confederate forces and their economic base would end the war.

• Robber Barons and the Captains of Industry

  • These "questionable practices" usually included a perception that they offered their products at extremely low prices as to pay their workers very poorly and buying out the competitors that couldn't keep up.
  • The result was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, sponsored by Senator John Sherman, of Ohio.
  • The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act is not to protect competitors from harm from legitimately successful businesses, nor to prevent businesses from gaining honest profits from consumers, but rather to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuses.
  • Senator Sherman and other sponsors declared that the act had roots in a common-law policy that frowned on monopolies.
  • Nevertheless, passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act did not end the public clamor; 15 years passed before a national administration began to enforce the act, when President Theodore Roosevelt, known as "the Trustbuster," sent his attorney general after the Northern Securities Corporation, a transportation holding company.