ALS : Memphis, to James B. McPherson, 1863 Oct. 6.
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Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1854-1863
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William Tecumseh Sherman, born 1854, was the son of US Army general William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman. While the entire family was at camp in Tennessee, the boy was made an honorary sergeant in the unit, wore a specially made uniform and regularly attended its parades. He died Oct. 10, 1863 of Typhoid....
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...
McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864
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McPherson was born in Clyde, Ohio. He attended Norwalk Academy in Norwalk, Ohio, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1853, first in his class, which included Philip H. Sheridan, John M. Schofield, and John Bell Hood; Hood would oppose him later in the Western Theater. McPherson was directly appointed to the Corps of Engineers with the rank of brevet second lieutenant. For a year after his graduation he was assistant instructor of practical engineering at the Mi...
