The Lieutenant Who Called for Total War—In 1863
New for May 2026
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24m
William Tecumseh Sherman is credited by historians as pioneering total war. Almost two years before Sherman’s March through Georgia, the idea of taking off the kid gloves and fighting a hard war was expressed in no uncertain terms by Union 2nd Lt. James E. McBeth.
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