Sherman was responsible for marching troops through the heart of the traitorous Southern States and for capturing Atlanta.
Sherman's March to the Sea was brilliant in that he burned the South as he went while also dodging the Southern Army. He knew that his job was to destroy the Southern economy and was not concerned with fighting the traitorous rebel army.
Washington believed that as a whole the world looked up to america and america was the nation the world should look up to for answers on how to be a country.
Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar opposed annexation.He held visions of empire in which Texas would rival the United States for supremacy on the North American continent.
