ECW Podcast: Was William T. Sherman Overrated?
William T. Sherman has been reviled and beloved over the past 160 years as one of the most polarizing and magnetic figures of the American Civil War. Join Emerging Civil War’s Chris Mackowski, Cecily Nelson Zander, Derek Maxfield, and Dave Powell as they ponder the question, “Is William T. Sherman overrated?”
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Hugely overrated – even more than Grant. He kept screwing up, and Grant would come in and lie for him – for them both – and they’d escape trouble that, had they committed in the east, would have seen them cashiered, if not sent to prison.