QX SQBQR HOV….. (Please refer to your newspaper for complete puzzle.)
TODAY’S CLUE: H = W
ANSWER: IF CIVIL WAR GENERAL WILLIAM WERE AT THE SUMMIT OF EVEREST, WHAT MIGHT ONE CALL HIM? SHERMAN ON THE MOUNT.
GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
FEBRUARY 8, 1820 – FEBRUARY 14, 1891 • AGED 71 • UNION GENERAL & AMERICAN CIVIL WAR COMMANDER
🏡 FROM OHIO TO WEST POINT
William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, and was raised partly by the family of influential politician Thomas Ewing after his father’s death. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1840 and began a military career that would eventually make him one of the Civil War’s most recognizable generals.
📚 A SOLDIER, BANKER & EDUCATOR
Sherman resigned from the Army in 1853 and worked in banking and other civilian pursuits before becoming superintendent of a military academy in Louisiana. When Southern states began seceding in 1861, he returned to military service on the Union side.
🤝 TWO GENERALS, ONE UNION CAUSE
Sherman developed a close military partnership with Ulysses S. Grant, serving under him in major campaigns including Shiloh and Vicksburg. Their coordinated operations helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi River and weakened Confederate forces in the western theater.
🔥 THE MARCH THAT SHOOK GEORGIA
After capturing Atlanta in September 1864, Sherman led approximately 60,000 Union soldiers on his famous March to the Sea, reaching Savannah that December. His troops destroyed railroads, supplies, and other resources supporting the Confederacy, making the campaign both strategically significant and deeply controversial.
⚔️ A GENERAL WHO UNDERSTOOD WAR’S HORRORS
Sherman believed that defeating the Confederacy required breaking its capacity and willingness to continue fighting, not merely winning battlefield engagements. His destructive campaigns and his later military policies toward Native American nations remain subjects of historical scrutiny and debate.
🌟 A GENERAL WHO REFUSED THE PRESIDENCY
Sherman served as commanding general of the United States Army from 1869 until 1883 and firmly resisted efforts to draw him into presidential politics. He died in New York City in 1891, leaving a complicated legacy of military innovation, Union victory, and the human costs of war.
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