Sherman
/ˈʃɜːmən/- Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-91), American general. In 1864 in the American Civil War he became chief Union commander in the west. He set out with 60,000 men on a march through Georgia, during which he crushed Confederate forces and broke civilian morale by his policy of deliberate destruction of the territory he passed through.谢尔曼, 威廉·特库姆塞（1820-1891, 美国将军, 1864年在美国内战中担任西部联邦军的总司令, 率领60,000人横越佐治亚州, 其间用故意破坏所过之地的策略击溃了邦联军队, 并摧毁了敌方的民众士气）。