Who declared Sherman to be "the first modern general"?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
B. H. Liddell Hart
Winston Churchill
Answer
British military theorist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was "the first modern general" and "the most original genius of the American Civil War".
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