8nzsm Staff asked 2 months ago
Which historical figure was considered a madman until it was proven that he was right?
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8nzsm Staff answered 2 months ago
General William Tecumseh Sherman, United States Army, AKA “Uncle Billy” by his subordinates and “Cump” by his close friends. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he predicted that it would last for several years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
He was declared unfit for duty and sent home to Ohio on medical leave for these statements by his then-immediate superior, General Henry W. “Old Brains” Halleck, who shortly after became the General-in-Chief of the Army. Sherman was returned to duty when, as historical author Shelby Foote put it, “… the Army realized he wasn’t so crazy after all!” He might have been kept on leave and then discharged if he wasn’t close friends with General Ulysses S. Grant and he didn’t have a brother (John Sherman) who was a US Senator. Eventually he succeeded both Halleck and Grant as General-in-Chief.
He was declared unfit for duty and sent home to Ohio on medical leave for these statements by his then-immediate superior, General Henry W. “Old Brains” Halleck, who shortly after became the General-in-Chief of the Army. Sherman was returned to duty when, as historical author Shelby Foote put it, “… the Army realized he wasn’t so crazy after all!” He might have been kept on leave and then discharged if he wasn’t close friends with General Ulysses S. Grant and he didn’t have a brother (John Sherman) who was a US Senator. Eventually he succeeded both Halleck and Grant as General-in-Chief.
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