Commencement speech, 1866 July 19.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Commencement speech, 1866 July 19.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122566422

Holograph text of the commencement speech given by General Sherman at Dartmouth College.

12 p.

New Hampshire Newspaper Project

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6767407

New Hampshire Newspaper Project

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck93n8 (person)

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...