ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author thinks the American Civil War must contain in its history the most complete exemplification of all phases of military and civil strategy and relations ever known to mankind. In the American Civil War, the author also thinks the one thing that has never been understood is Stuart Pratt Sherman's march to the sea. Sherman got there as a transportation expert, an ex-railroad man. The fact that Napoleon's method of warfare was barbaric was disguised by the sentiment for liberty which originally sanctioned the French Revolution; had Napoleon been the commander of an army for any long-established government, his performance would have had no disguise, and the world would have been horrified. All the wars of the nineteenth century were limited war, but there were indications, manifestations, of what was coming, as in the last year of the American Civil War.
