Gen. William T. Sherman is remembered for his service during the Civil War. He was the architect of some of its most daring campaigns and, by the war's end, recognized as the second-most-powerful general in the U.S. Army. Yet Sherman's military career, highlighted by his campaigns in the South, represented a single chapter of a career largely focused on the American West.
Historian Bennett Parten reframes Sherman's overall legacy, looking west across the Plains. He shares research as he discusses how the famous general played a pivotal role in the early history of California; the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad; and the U.S. government's many wars against native peoples.
Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University and the author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation.
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