American Toby Jug Museum 

General Sherman character jug designed by Caroline Dadd and modeled by Shane Ridge, and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, in a 2010 limited edition of 100 commissioned by UK International Ceramics. William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 -- 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861 -- 1865), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general." Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, culminating with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta. His subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. He accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in April of 1865. When Grant assumed the U.S. presidency in 1869, Sherman succeeded him as Commanding General of the Army (1869 -- 1883) during which he was responsible for the U.S. Army conduct in the Indian Wars in the western United States. He steadfastly refused to be drawn into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the best-known firsthand accounts of the Civil War. A Union flag and a pistol form the handle of the jug.