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Bibliography of William Tecumseh Sherman

Compiled by the Museum of the City of San Francisco
From the California State Library System

Photograph of General William Tecumseh SermanAuthor: Athearn, Robert G.
Title: William Tecumseh Sherman and the settlement of the West. [1st ed.] Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1956]
Description: xix, 371 p. illus., ports., maps. 25 cm.

Author: Barrett, John Gilchrist.
Title: Sherman's march through the Carolinas. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1956.
Description: viii, 325 p. maps (on lining papers) 24 cm.

Author: Bass, Cynthia.
Title: Sherman's march / Cynthia Bass. 1st ed. New York : Villard Books, 1994.
Description: 228 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Author: Bowman, S. M. (Samuel Millard), 1815-1885.
Title: Sherman and his campaigns : a military biography / by S. M. Bowman and R. B. Irwin. New York : C. B. Richardson, 1865.
Description: 520 p. : maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Author: Boyd, David French, 1834-1899.
Title: General W. T. Sherman as a college president,. Baton Rouge, Ortlieb's printing house, 1910.
Description: 8 p. 25 cm.

Author: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910.
Title: The life of General William T. Sherman, by James P. Boyd. [Philadelphia] Publisher's union, 1891.
Description: 608 p. incl. front., plates, ports., maps. 20 cm.

Author: Boynton, Henry V. (Henry Van), 1835-1905.
Title: Sherman's historical raid. The Memoirs in the light of the record. A review based upon compilations from the files of the War Office. [By] H.V. Boynton ... Cincinnati, Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., 1875.
Description: 276 p. facsim. 22 cm.

Author: Brockett, Linus Pierpont, 1820-1893.
Title: Our great captains : Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and Farragut / by L.P. Brockett. New York : C.B. Richardson, 1866.
Description: 292 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.

Author: Burne, Alfred Higgins, 1886-1959.
Title: Lee, Grant and Sherman; a study in leadership in the 1864-65 campaign, by Lieut.-Colonel Alfred H. Burne; with an introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Description: xxiii, 216 p. incl. tab. front. (6 port.) maps (part fold.) 24 cm.

Author: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall), 1838-1933.
Title: Sherman's march to the sea / [by Samuel H.M. Byers]. Sheridan's ride / [Thomas Buchanan Read]. Our soldier's families. [S.l. : s.n., 186-?
Description: 8 p. ; 11 cm.

Author: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall), 1838-1933.
Title: Twenty years in Europe; a consul-general's memories of noted people, with letters from General W. T. Sherman, by S.H.M. Byers ... Chicago & New York, Rand, McNally, [c1900]
Description: 320 p. plates, ports. 21 cm.

Author: Chase, Edward.
Title: The memorial life of General William Tecumseh Sherman,. Chicago, R. S. Peele & co., 1891.
Description: 3 p.l., 5-558 p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. map) plates. 24 cm.

Author: Clarke, Dwight Lancelot, 1885-
Title: William Tecumseh Sherman: gold rush banker, by Dwight L. Clarke. San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1969.
Description: xviii, 446 p. illus., map (on lining papers), ports. 24 cm.

Author: Coburn, Mark.
Title: Terrible innocence : General Sherman at war / Mark Coburn ; maps by Page Lindsey. New York : Hippocrene Books, c1993.
Description: 248 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Author: Conyngham, David Power, 1840-1883.
Title: Sherman's march through the South : With sketches and incidents of the campaign / By Capt. David P. Conyngham. New York : Sheldon and Co., 1865.
Description: 431 p.

Author: Davis, Burke, 1913-
Title: Sherman's march / by Burke Davis. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1980.
Description: 335 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Author: Dawley, T. R. (Thomas Robinson), 1832-1904.
Title: The Life of Wm. T. Sherman,. New York, T. R. Dawley, 1864.
Description: 2 p.l., [17]-108 p. 20 cm.

Author: Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916.
Title: Personal recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, and General William T. Sherman, by Grenville M. Dodge. [1st reprint ed.] Denver, Sage Books [1965]
Description: 237 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.

Author: Dye, Deacon.
Title: History of the plots and crimes of the great conspiracy to overthrow liberty in America. New York, 1866. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1969]
Description: vi, 364 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.

Author: Fellman, Michael.
Title: Citizen Sherman : a life of William Tecumseh Sherman / Michael Fellman. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1995.
Description: xiv, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Author: Fletcher, Thos. C. (Thomas Clement), 1827-1899.
Title: Life and reminiscences of General Wm. T. Sherman. Baltimore, R. H. Woodward company, 1891.
Description: 2 p.l., ix-xvi, 479 p. incl. front., plates, 2 port. 21 cm.

Author: Force, M. F. (Manning Ferguson), 1824-1899.
Title: General Sherman,. New York, D. Appleton and company, 1899.
Description: ix, 353 p. front., 1 illus., pl., port. group, 8 maps, facsim. 20 cm.

Author: Glatthaar, Joseph T., 1956-
Title: The march to the sea and beyond : Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns / Joseph T. Glatthaar. Louisiana pbk. ed. Baton Rouge : Louisianna State University Press, 1995, c1985.
Description: xvi, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Author: Glatthaar, Joseph T., 1956-
Title: Union soldiers and their attitudes on Sherman's Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns / by Joseph Thomas Glatthaar. 1983.
Description: x, 378 leaves : map ; 29 cm.

Author: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903.
Title: Facing the enemy. The illustrated story life of General W.T. Sherman, by P.C. Headley. New York, G.A. Leavitt, [c1870]
Description: 365 p. front., plates, ports., maps. 18 cm.

Author: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903.
Title: Life and military career of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman. New York, W. H. Appleton, 1865.
Description: 3 p.l., [5]-368 p. front., plates, maps. 17 cm.

Author: Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931.
Title: Leben von Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, des verstorbenen pensionirten Generals der Bundesarmee / von W. Fletcher Johnson ; unter Mithulfe des Gen. Majors O.O. Howard ; mit zahlreichen Karten und Illustrationen. [S.l.] : Edgewood Publishing Company, 1891.
Description: 608 p. : ill., maps

Author: Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931.
Title: The Life of Gen'l Wm. Techumseh Sherman, The third and Last of the Great Generals of the War. By Major-General O. O. Howard, U.S.A., General Sherman's intimate Friend and Comrade and W. Fletcher Johnson. Philadelphia : Hubbard Bros., 1891.
Description: 607 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Author: Keim, De B. Randolph (De Benneville Randolph), 1841-1914, ed.
Title: Sherman. A memorial in art, oratory, and literature by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee with the aid of the Congress of the United States of America. [Washington] Govt. print. off., 1904.
Description: 410 p. front., plates, ports., maps, plans. 27 cm.

Author: Kennett, Lee B.
Title: Marching through Georgia : the story of soldiers and civilians during Sherman's campaign / Lee Kennett. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1995.
Description: x, 418 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Author: Kerr, Laura E.
Title: William Tecumseh Sherman : a family chronicle / by Laura E. Kerr ; line drawings by Betty Arnsbarger. Lancaster, Ohio : Fairfield Heritage Association, c1984.
Description: 114 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Author: Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949.
Title: Sherman : fighting prophet / by Lloyd Lewis ; illustrated with reproductions of maps, engravings and photographs ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Brooks D. Simpson. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1993.
Description: 690 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
Title: William T. Sherman; a register of his papers in the Library of Congress. Washington, 1965.
Description: 12 l. 26 cm.

Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
Title: William T. Sherman : a register of his papers in the Library of Congress. Rev. ed. Washington : Manuscript Division, Research Dept., Library of Congress, 1977.
Description: iii, 10 p. ; 27 cm. Photograph of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Author: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970.
Title: Sherman: soldier, realist, American. New York, Praeger [1958]
Description: 456 p. illus. 25 cm.

Author: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970.
Title: Sherman, the genius of the civil war,. [London] E. Benn, ltd., 1930.
Description: 5 p.l., 9-473 p. front. (port.) maps (part fold.) 22 cm.

Title: Life and reminiscences of General Wm. T. Sherman / by distinguished men of his time [including] ex-President Hayes ... [et al.]. [United States] : Lenox, 1891.
Description: xvi, 479 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Title: Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Farragut : an account of the gift, the erection and the dedication of the bronze statues given by Charles H. Hackley to the city of Muskegon, Michigan : unveiled in Hackley Square, Memorial Day, 1900. Muskegon, Mich. : Chronical Presses, 1900.
Description: 59 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports.

Author: Lucas, Marion Brunson, 1935-
Title: Sherman and the burning of Columbia / by Marion Brunson Lucas ; foreword by Bell I. Wiley. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1976.
Description: 188 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Author: Marszalek, John F., 1939-
Title: Sherman : a soldier's passion for order / John F. Marszalek. New York : Free Press, c1993.
Description: xvi, 635 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Author: Marszalek, John F., 1939-
Title: Sherman's other war : the general and the Civil War press / John F. Marszalek. Memphis [TN] : Memphis State University Press, c1981.
Description: x, 230 p. ; 23 cm.

Author: McAllister, Anna (Shannon) 1888-
Title: Ellen Ewing, wife of General Sherman, by Anna McAllister. New York, Cincinnati, Benziger Brothers, 1936.
Description: xiv, 379 p. front., plates, ports, facsims. 23 cm.

Author: McCormick, Edgar Lindsley, 1914- ed.
Title: Sherman in Georgia; selected source materials for college research papers. Boston, Heath [1961]
Description: 114 p. illus. 24 cm.

Author: McDonough, James L., 1934-
Title: "War so terrible" : Sherman and Atlanta / James Lee McDonough and James Pickett Jones. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c1987.
Description: xx, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Author: Merrill, James M.
Title: William Tecumseh Sherman, by James M. Merrill. Chicago, Rand McNally [1971]
Description: 445 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Author: Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972.
Title: The general who marched to hell; William Tecumseh Sherman and his march to fame and infamy. [1st ed.] New York, Knopf, 1951.
Description: xxiii, 349, xvii p. maps. 22 cm.

Author: Moulton, Charles William, d. 1888.
Title: The review of General Sherman's Memoirs examined, chiefly in the light of its own evidence [by] C. W. Moulton. Cincinnati, R. Clarke & co., printers, 1875.
Description: 87 p. 23 cm.

Author: New York Chamber of Commerce.
Title: Tribute of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New-York to the memory of General Wm. T. Sherman. February 17, 1891. New York, Press of the Chamber of Commerce, 1891.

Author: New York (State). Legislature.
Title: Proceedings of the Senate and Assembly of the state of New York, on the life and services of Gen. William T. Sherman, held at Harmanus Bleecker hall, Albany, March 29, 1892. Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer, 1892.
Description: 79 p. front. (port.) 26 cm.

Author: Nichols, George Ward.
Title: The story of the Great March, from the diary of a staff officer. New York, Harper, 1865.
Description: 394 p.

Author: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909.
Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... Boston, Mass., Providence, R.I., Gately & O'Gorman [c1891]
Description: 17-568 p. front., illus. (incl. ports.) 9 pl. (1 double) 20 cm.

Author: Reston, James, 1941-
Title: Sherman's march and Vietnam / James Reston, Jr. New York : Macmillan, c1984.
Description: xii, 323 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Author: Robins, Edward, 1862-1943.
Title: William T. Sherman, by Edward Robins. Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs & company [c1905]
Description: 352 p. illus. 20 cm.

Author: Royster, Charles.
Title: The destructive war : William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans / Charles Royster. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Random House [distributor], 1991.
Description: xii, 523 p., [16] p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Author: Senour, F. (Faunt Le Roy), 1824-1910.
Title: Major General William T. Sherman, and his campaign / by Rev. F. Senour. Chicago : H.M. Sherwood, 1865.
Description: xiv, 477 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: General W.T. Sherman as college president; a collection of letters, documents, and other material, chiefly from private sources, relating to the life and activities of General William Tecumseh Sherman, to the early years of Louisiana State University, and to the stirring conditions existing in the South on the eve of the Civil War, 1859-1861, collected and ed. by Walter L. Fleming ... Cleveland, O., The Arthur M. Clark Company, 1912.
Description: 399 p. incl. front. (port.) illus. (plan) pl., group of ports., facsims. 25 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Home letters of General Sherman; ed. by M.A. De Wolfe Howe. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1909.
Description: 4 p. ., 412 p. front. (port.) 22 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: A letter from Sherman to Colonel Stevenson; with an introduction by Wilbur J. Smith and a facsimile of the original letter from the collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, 1960.
Description: [6] p. facsim. 34 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, written by himself, with an appendix, bringing his life down to its closing scenes, also a personal tribute and critique of the memoirs, by Hon. James G. Blaine .. 4th ed., rev., cor. and complete. New York, C. L. Webster & co., 1891.
Description: 2 v. in 1. front. (port.) 24 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. By himself ... New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1875.
Description: 2 v. fold. map. 23 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman / written by himself ; with an appendix, bringing his life down to its closing scenes, also a personal tribute and critique of the memoirs, by Hon. James G. Blaine. 4th ed., rev., corrected and complete New York : Webster & Co., 1891.
Description: 2 v. : ill., folded maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. 2d ed., rev. and cor. New York, D. Appleton and company, 1913 [c1903]
Description: 2 v. front., ports., fold. maps. 23 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Recollections of California, 1846-1861 / General William T. Sherman ; foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. Oakland, Calif. : Biobooks, 1945.
Description: 147 p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : col. ill., folded map, facsims (1 folded) ; 24 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: The Sherman letters; correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, ed. by Rachel Sherman Thorndike. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1894.
Description: viii, 1 l., 398 p. front., ports. 23 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Travel accounts of General William T. Sherman to Spokan Falls, Washington Territory, in the summers of 1877 and 1883 / by William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Henry Sheridan. Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press, c1984.
Description: 230 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: Two letters from General William Tecumseh Sherman to General Ulysses S. Grant & William T. McPherson, in the collection of W.K. Bixby. [Boston, D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press] 1919.
Description: 18 p. 23 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: The Sherman letters; correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, ed. by Rachel Sherman Thorndike. With portraits. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1894.
Description: viii p., 1 l., 398 p. front., ports. 23 cm.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: "War is hell!" : William T. Sherman's personal narrative of his march through Georgia / edited by Mills Lane. Savannah : Beehive Press, [1974]
Description: xxvi, 196 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Taken principally from the 2d v. of the Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by himself.

Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Title: William Tecumseh Sherman papers. [Washington] : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976.
Description: 51 reels ; 35 mm.

Author: Smedberg, William Renwick.
Title: In memoriam. William Tecumseh Sherman :brig-general U. S. Army. Died at New York, N.Y., Saturday, February 14th, 1891, a companion of the Commandery of Ohio. San Francisco : Military Order Loyal Legion of the United States, Headquarters Commandery of the State of California, [1891]
Description: [3] p. ; 22 cm.

Author: Stanton, Benjamin, 1809-1872.
Title: Letter of Lieut. Gov. Stanton, in reply to Hon. Thomas Ewing. Columbus, Printed at the office of the Ohio state journal, 1862.
Description: 25 p. 22 cm.

Author: Tobie, Edward P. (Edward Parsons), b. 1838.
Title: Personal recollections of General Sherman / by Edward P. Tobie. Providence : The Society, 1889.
Description: 40 p.

Author: Vetter, Charles Edmund.
Title: Sherman : merchant of terror, advocate of peace / Charles Edmund Vetter. Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., 1992.
Description: 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Author: Walters, John Bennett.
Title: Merchant of terror: General Sherman and total war. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1973]
Description: xviii, 267 p. port. 22 cm.
Title: War is all hell, 1865 / WETA ; a Florentine Films production ; a film by Ken Burns. Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, 1990.
Description: 1 videocassette (1 hr., 9 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 1/2 in. + index (49 p.) + teacher's manual (24 p.) + student handouts (nos. 1-40)

Author: Wheeler, Richard.
Title: Sherman's march / Richard Wheeler. 1st ed. New York : Crowell, c1978.
Description: 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Author: Wheeler, Richard.
Title: We knew William Tecumseh Sherman / Richard Wheeler. New York : Crowell, c1977.
Description: xiii, 130 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Author: Williams, T. Harry (Thomas Harry), 1909-
Title: McClellan, Sherman, and Grant. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [1962]
Description: 113 p. illus. 20 cm.

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