A century and a half after the Civil War, Sherman remains one of its most controversial figures. In this remarkable reassessment of Sherman's life and career, Eisenhower finds in Sherman a man of startling contrasts, and takes readers from his Ohio origins and his fledgling first stint in the Army to his years as a businessman in California and his hurried return to uniform at the outbreak of the war. From Bull Run through to Sherman's epic March to the Sea, Eisenhower offers up a fascinating narrative of a military genius whose influence helped preserve the Union.