{"id":59769,"date":"2015-10-15T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=59769"},"modified":"2024-04-30T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:21:21","slug":"william-tecumseh-sherman","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/william-tecumseh-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"William Tecumseh Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">William Tecumseh Sherman<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"61fd18a2c20958bf29775854e0b56532\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR201c77b5367f715b74086c71403f9b0a\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR201c77b5367f715b74086c71403f9b0a\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR201c77b5367f715b74086c71403f9b0a\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/59769?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR201c77b5367f715b74086c71403f9b0a&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/59769?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR201c77b5367f715b74086c71403f9b0a\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: March 10, 2016<\/h2>\n\n<h3>A Chancellor\u2019s Village Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/168975477\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Great Lives: William Tecumseh Sherman\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/Sherman_OConnell-201x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/Sherman_OConnell-201x300.jpg 201w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/Sherman_OConnell-685x1024.jpg 685w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/Sherman_OConnell-763x1140.jpg 763w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/Sherman_OConnell.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p>Professor Robert O\u2019Connell describes his approach to his topic:  \u201cIt\u2019s no secret that story is at the core of biography.  Well, what do you do if your subject is so hyperactive, contradictory, mercurial, and just plain wordy that all you keep getting out of your research is a jumble of activity and virtually no clarity?  I fell back on something William Tecumseh Sherman liked to do: divide and conquer.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne night on my sofa, I realized that Sherman\u2019s life made the most sense as three separate stories: the first having to do with his significance as a military strategist; the second telling the tale of how \u2018Uncle Billy\u2019 and his boys came together to form the Army of the West, the first distinctively American ground force; and finally the personal side, a life that might have jumped out of a Jane Austin novel: father\u2019s untimely death leads to young \u2018Cump\u2019 being raised as the foster son of an important politician; falls in love with foster sister; then wages epic tug-of-war to truly win her from daddy, ultimately moving on to other conquests.  It boils down to a kind of three-ring circus of Sherman, but in the end it helped me weave together a life that made a little more sense, a life that might put a much mythicized and vilified figure in better perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Robert L. O\u2019Connell<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/OConnell-photo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/OConnell-photo-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/OConnell-photo-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/10\/OConnell-photo-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Dr. Robert L. O\u2019Connell is presently a Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, where he has taught since 2004.  Previously, he had a thirty-year career in the U.S. Intelligence Community, during which time he worked at the U.S. Army Foreign Science and Technology Center, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, served as a U.S. delegation member at the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland, and finally as a senior analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center. <\/p>\n<p>Professor O\u2019Connell received his B.A. from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia.   He is the author of seven published books \u2013 one novel and six histories, the last two of which, The Ghosts of Cannae and Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman were New York Times non-fiction bestsellers.  Fierce Patriot was also the recipient of the 2015 William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[212],"class_list":{"0":"post-59769","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-212","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>William Tecumseh Sherman - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/william-tecumseh-sherman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"William Tecumseh Sherman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/william-tecumseh-sherman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T18:21:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/william-tecumseh-sherman\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/william-tecumseh-sherman\\\/\",\"name\":\"William Tecumseh Sherman - 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