William Tecumseh Sherman collection 1813-1888 1861-1882 Sherman, William Tecumseh collection
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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...
United States. Army
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...
Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862
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Astronomer, teacher, and Union soldier, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1823-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84185831 Astronomer and army officer. From the description of Letter of O. M. Mitchel, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454567 ...
Haskell, Clinton H.
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William Tecumseh Sherman was born February 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio, the son of Charles Sherman and Mary Hoyt. After Charles Sherman's sudden death in 1829, Mary and her 11 children were left impoverished, and William went to live with the family of a prominent Ohio politician, Thomas Ewing. In May 1836, through Ewing's influence, Sherman received an appointment as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated sixth in his class. He served as a s...
Sherman, Ellen Ewing, 1824-1888
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Wife of General William T. Sherman. From the description of Letters, 1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54801935 Ellen Ewing Sherman, wife of William Tecumseh Sherman and daughter of Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), senator from Ohio. From the description of Correspondence of Ellen Ewing Sherman, 1840-1863 (1850-1859). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122565171 ...
