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Sherman, city (1990 pop. 31,601), seat of Grayson co., N Tex., near the Red River; inc. 1858. Originally on a stagecoach route, it is a highway and railroad junction. Manufactures include electronic equipment, processed foods, military equipment, and metal products. Austin College is in Sherman. |
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The special vindictiveness many Southerners reserve for General William Tecumseh Sherman has always perplexed most Yankees. Nancy Whitelaw's Victory In Destruction: The Story Of William Tecumseh Sherman (1031-798311) provides a survey of Sherman's early battle for survival: as an orphan he was given to neighbors to raise and yet graduated from West Point in 1840, the served in the army before he became a banker and developed a support for Southerners' rights to own slaves. Another example: Walzer takes up the case of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman (himself a West Point graduate) and the Burning of Atlanta- To Walzer, Sherman subscribes to what Walzer himself terms the War is Hell Doctrine: the idea that "war is entirely and singularly the crime of those who begin it, and soldiers resisting aggression . |
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