William Tecumseh Sherman is famous for his March to the Sea that both angered and broke the will of the Confederacy during the Civil War. The quotable Sherman is equally famous, perhaps, for saying, “War is hell!” But not many know that Sherman once tried his hand at a career in law. He was admitted to the Kansas Bar in the antebellum territorial days when the interpretation of the law was as shaky as the volatile political atmosphere. Joining in a partnership in Leavenworth, Sherman dodged the law by saving a fugitive slave and held high ideals for his future as an attorney. But he hadn’t reckoned on a scatterbrained, Latin-and precedent-spouting prosecuting attorney, a confused old judge at the end of his career, and a prize pig torn between two sloppers. Sherman is fortunate to have kept his sanity in the weird, wonderful, and sometimes dangerous place known as Leavenworth, Kansas Territory!
This video is dedicated to all my friends who went to law school.
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