ABSTRACT
Tecumseh Sherman was born on 8 Feb, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. Sherman first told Cameron that he needed sixty thousand troops to clear Kentucky of insurgents and two hundred thousand to go on the offensive. Apparently Cameron misunderstood and thought Sherman was asking for two hundred thousand men in order to keep Kentucky from seceding. Knox again made mention of the insanity claim and called for Sherman’s dismissal. Now, to every army and almost every general a newspaper reporter goes along, filling up our transports, swelling our trains, reporting our progress, guessing at places, picking up dropped expressions, inciting jealousy and discontent, and doing infinite mischief. In the Atlanta to Savannah campaign Sherman urged his soldiers to “forage liberally off the land” and attempted to bring civilians and their will to contest this war into the conflict.
