New York: Library of America, (1990) dj. Hardcover - Memoir of one of the most controversial generals of the American Civil War. " 'War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,' he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges. With the propulsive energy and intelligence that marked his campaigns, Sherman describes striking incidents and anecdotes and collects dozens of his incisive and often outspoken wartime orders and reports. This complex self-portrait of an innovative and relentless American warrior provides firsthand accounts of the war's crucial events Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, the marches through Georgia and the Carolinas." Maps, charts, chronology, appendix, index, notes. 1136 pp. ISBN: 0-940450658.