Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase “War is hell.”

General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among the items that will be open to bidders Tuesday at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus.

Other items that will be auctioned off include Sherman’s uniform’s rank insignia worn during the Civil War, a family Bible and his personal, annotated copy of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs.

An experts say that General Sherman’s sword will bring a “conservative” estimated sales price between $40,000-$60,000 and an estimated sale of the entirety of Sherman’s collection could sell as high as $300,000.

General Sherman took Atlanta in September of 1864 and helped President Lincoln to win reelection.  Sherman and his troops came through Chattooga County and he made his headquarters in Gaylesville, Alabama in October of 1864 before beginning his march to the sea.