Portrait of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, officer of the Federal Army. Note: On March 18, 1864, Sherman became Commanding General of the Military Division of the Mississippi, succeeding Ulysses S. Grant, who became General in Chief of the Armies of the United States. Grant immediately ordered Sherman "to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources."1 Sherman, with more than one hundred thousand men under his command from the Armies of the Cumberland, Tennessee, and the Ohio, immediately began preparations for what became known as the Atlanta Campaign. Library of Congress Civil War Collection
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Mathew_Brady" class="extiw" title="w:en:Mathew Brady"><span title="American photographer (circa 1823–1896)">Mathew Benjamin Brady</span></a>
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circa 1865 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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