This Week's Best Old Photos

No. 351

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on the front line near Atlanta, September 1864.

His gray felt hat is a treasure held in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Early in the war, Sherman and Grant worked together in Cairo, IL.

Later, they fought together at Shiloh and Vicksburg.

Sherman’s command grew to a force of 60,000 men, and some …