55 Sherman at the Bar: A General Misfit?

Before William Tecumseh Sherman became one of the Union’s most formidable generals, he was a melancholy banker, a restless businessman, and a thoroughly unhappy lawyer in Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr. Liam traces the unlikely prewar career of a man who often seemed badly placed, yet kept learning, organizing, observing, and preparing for work he could not yet foresee. Sherman’s story offers a wry and thoughtful reflection on vocation, disappointment, perseverance, and the possibility that the jobs we were never meant to keep may still teach us what we will later need.