Similarities Between Napoleon Bonaparte And Frederick The Great

William T. Sherman a historical icon that can be ranked in the same category as Napoleon Bonaparte and Frederick the Great is a great is an absolute accomplishment. A military genius and mastermind that would deliver the final death blow to the South and the Confederacy. Burke Davis shows the memory of Sherman with these momentous accolades. Sherman indeed entitled to these honors, not only a master of strategy but also a master of human manipulation, and understanding. Sherman from the beginning of the war knew this was not going to be some fast and easy victory for anyone, yet knew that his war must be waged all out no holds bar in order to achieve success. Burke Davis clearly affirms the fact that Sherman was well oriented with war and …show more content…
For miles around the country was light as day… the flames shooting up for hundreds of feet into the air” With the nearby army band playing, he would tell his brother “It was like fiddling over the burning of Rome.” Regardless of the fact that Sherman felt for the Southern civilians of Atlanta he felt that he must do whatever it took to make war as terrible as possible. Rivers and Davis’s books both agree on this fact. Rivers will cite Sherman in saying “We cannot change the hearts of those people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that would they will realize the fact that, still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.” As well as Davis citing Sherman in response to Atlanta Mayor James Calhoun in his protest to Sherman’s evacuation of Atlanta’s civilians, “you cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine …show more content…
Both would point out very specific aspects that Sherman would organize to ensure it would in fact be the “death blow”. Davis mentions a telegraph sent from Sherman to U S Grant. “Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction if its roads, houses and people will cripple their military resources… I can make the march and make Georgia howl!” Rivers would agree with Davis with different emphasis but still with great importance. The last chance the Confederacy would have to “win” the war would be the election of a new President in 1984. Which look like a possibility with how unsuccessful Union campaigns had been and how successful Confederate fighting was. “Sherman also knew how much the stakes had been raised since his ability to capture Atlanta, and none more so than for the Lincoln’s re-election.” With the election of a new president shined the light of hope for the