COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-e
by ATRICK ORSAGOS Associated PressThe sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer's Auction s, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Columbus , Ohio. The wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among the items that will be open to bidders Tuesday, May 14, 2024. for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase “War is hell.
Sherman, a West Point graduate, was superintendent of a military school in Louisiana when South Carolina seceded in 1861, setting the war in motion. His capture of Atlanta in September 1864 helped President Abraham Lincoln win a second term in November of that year, ensuring that his fight to preserve the Union would continue.
“Had it not been for William Tecumseh Sherman, it is conceivable that the North would not have won the Civil War and that the Union would not have been preserved,” said Adam Fleischer, president of the auction house. “As Americans, we live with the consequences of the Civil War whether we know it or not,” Fleischer said, “and if you remove William Tecumseh Sherman from history the war could have ended very differently.”
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