commander, 28 engagements

Battles of William Tecumseh Sherman

United States Army general (1820–1891)

William Tecumseh Sherman is recorded as a commander at 28 placed engagements in the atlas between 1862 and 1900: 25 battles, 1 siege and 2 campaigns, all in present-day United States. Taken in date order, the sites lie 5,656 km apart end to end, 218 km between engagements on average. Most belong to American Civil War (27), American Indian Wars (1).

28 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

27 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1862	Battle of Chickasaw Bayou	Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States		Confederate victory
1862	Vicksburg Campaign	Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States	7 km SW	Union victory
29 April 1863	Battle of Snyder's Bluff	Warren County, Mississippi, United States	18 km NE	Confederate victory
14 May 1863	Battle of Jackson	Jackson, Mississippi, United States	61 km E	Union victory
11 October 1863	First Battle of Collierville	Shelby County, Tennessee, United States	310 km N	Union victory
1863	Chattanooga campaign	Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States	398 km E	Union victory
25 November 1863	Battle of Missionary Ridge	Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States	3 km E	Union victory
1864	Battle of New Hope Church	Paulding County, Georgia, United States	126 km S	Confederate victory
1864	Meridian campaign	Mississippi, United States	405 km SW	Union victory
1864	Atlanta campaign	North Georgia, Georgia, United States	431 km E	Union victory
13 May 1864	Battle of Resaca	Gordon County, Georgia, United States	106 km NW	Union victory
17 May 1864	Battle of Adairsville	Bartow County, Georgia, United States	19 km S	Union victory
19 May 1864	Battle of Cassville	Georgia, United States	22 km S	Union strategic victory
26 May 1864	Battle of Dallas	Paulding County, Georgia, United States	34 km S	Union victory
27 May 1864	Battle of Pickett's Mill	Paulding County, Georgia, United States	12 km NE	Confederate victory
9 June 1864	Battle of Marietta	Cobb County, Georgia, United States	19 km E	Union victory
10 June 1864	Battle of Noonday Creek	Cobb County, Georgia, United States	3 km SW	Confederate victory
15 June 1864	Battle of Gilgal Church	Cobb County, Georgia, United States	8 km NW	Confederate tactical victory
27 June 1864	Battle of Kennesaw Mountain	Cobb County, Georgia, United States	8 km E	Confederate victory
22 July 1864	Battle of Atlanta	DeKalb County, Georgia, United States	33 km SE	Union victory
28 July 1864	Battle of Ezra Church	Fulton County, Georgia, United States	8 km W	Union victory
5 August 1864	Battle of Utoy Creek	Fulton County, Georgia, United States	5 km SW	Inconclusive
31 August 1864	Battle of Jonesborough	Clayton County, Georgia, United States	23 km SE	Union victory
1865	Battle of Bentonville	Johnston County, North Carolina, United States	588 km E	Union victory
16 March 1865	Battle of Averasborough	Harnett County, North Carolina, United States	32 km W	Inconclusive
1867	Comanche Campaign	Texas, United States	2,037 km W	United States victory; Comanche surrender and relocation
1900	Jackson Expedition	Jackson, Mississippi, United States	938 km E	Union victory
date unknown	Battle of Rocky Face Ridge	Whitfield County, Georgia, United States		Union victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.