General Sherman, Giant sequoia in Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, United States

General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, Tulare County, California. Its trunk measures 83.8 m in height and 7.7 m in diameter, with an estimated bole volume of 1,487 m³. The fibrous, ridged bark is reddish brown, grey and tan, deeply furrowed low on the trunk, and the base flares into buttressed roots beside a small wooden sign reading "GENERAL SHERMAN".

Naturalist James Wolverton named this tree in 1879 after General William Tecumseh Sherman, under whom he served during the American Civil War in the 9th Indiana Cavalry. The establishment of Sequoia National Park in 1890 solidified the official recognition of the name and protected the tree from commercial logging.

The tree's name honours Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman, who led a march through Georgia in 1864. From 1886 to 1892 the Kaweah Colony, a socialist logging community, called it Karl Marx Tree before the name reverted. A wooden sign reading "GENERAL SHERMAN" stands at the flared base.

Visitors reach the tree along a paved path that winds through Giant Forest and remains accessible for wheelchairs. During wildfire season, park authorities sometimes install fire-resistant wrapping to protect the trunk from intense heat.

The tree was briefly renamed Karl Marx Tree by the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community that settled near the forest from 1886 until its dissolution in 1892. The name reverted after Sequoia National Park was established in 1890 and the park administration listed it under Wolverton's name.