Smithsonian curators refer to them as the "Sherman Logs," because they were collected in 1879 at the instigation of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, the man who led the March from Atlanta to the sea ...

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses ... Sherman, who was wounded in the hand and had two horses shot out from under him, performed admirably. From that point on, the men ...