It was obvious that the two were close personal friends and Sherman once stated, “General Grant … Lincoln, who would not meet Grant in person until the following year, already wrote about him in glowing terms. Battles at Chattanooga, November 23-25, 1863. William Tecumsah Sherman, who with Grant was the most successful of the Union commanders but hated by the South for his “total war” policy in his March to the Sea and through the Carolinas; James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart, the Confederacy’s outstanding cavalry commander until his death at Yellow Tavern in 1864. Jean V. Berlin and Brooks D. Simpson (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 822-823. The experience bonded Sherman and Grant to a lifelong friendship. "General Grant is a great general. While their friendship didn't actually win the war, their deep respect and regard for each other impelled them to cooperate their efforts toward a common goal - winning the war. William T. Sherman had many slaves that served him until well after the war was over and did not free them until late in 1865. —Grant, praising Sherman in a letter to Jesse Grant, his father. Despite the people pushing for Sherman to take Grant’s position as general in charge of the armies, Sherman never wanted to infringe upon Grant in a way that would cause tension. Family friends helped, and Sherman went to live with soon-to-be Ohio Senator Thomas Ewing. I know him well. And there were many, many more! "The idea was to get Lee and Johnston together, pin … Porter, another of Sherman and Grant’s friends who commanded the Union fleet on the James River, also may have been present (he later said he attended both days’ meetings, whereas Sherman … Siege of Vicksburg, May 18–July 4, 1863. Shiloh, April 6, 1862. Shiloh, April 7, 1862. —Sherman, summing up their friendship . We were as brothers, I the older man in years, he the higher in rank. However, the … ... Sherman's recollections of his school performance were ... where Sherman served under Grant … With Daws Butler, William Conrad, June Foray, Paul Frees. The time traveling misadventures of a genius dog and his adopted son. Grant and Sherman met at West Point. They were nodding acquaintances rather than friends, but that changed in 1862. "Grant and Sherman were planning a hammer-and-anvil operation," said historian Jim Leutze. Sherman’s star, along with Grant’s, was now in the ascendant, and their careers were thenceforth closely linked as they worked together to bring about a Union victory in the war. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always. Sherman remained in the West, serving with Grant in the long campaign against Vicksburg. Letter from William Sherman to Ulysses Grant, March 12, 1865, in Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865, eds.