Papers, 1865-1914; (bulk 1865-1866).

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Papers, 1865-1914; (bulk 1865-1866).

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Personal, business, and military letters. Business letters concern collection and payment of debts. Military correspondence relates to his unsuccessful attempt to keep his position as Chief Signal Officer, and to his efforts to procure promotions and better positions for the men under his command. Personal and political letters discuss the Democratic and Republican parties, the Radical Republicans, the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the agreement between generals Sherman and Johnston, the Wilderness battlefield, and Afro-American suffrage.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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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...

Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891

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Confederate general. From the description of Letter (copy), 1861 Sept. 11 : Manassas, Va., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122489351 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Selma [Alabama], to Colonel Blanton Duncan, 1867 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489683 From the description of Letter, October 9, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443082432 Benjamin Stoddert E...

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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United States. Army

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Fisher, Benjamin Franklin, 1834-1915

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Enlisted as 1st Lieutenant in the 3rd Pa. Reserves Corps, Co. H. (1861). Saw action with the Army of the Potomac. Became Captain in 1863, captured by Mosby's Raiders and sent to Libby Prison (1863-64); escaped and re-assigned to Army of Potomac on staff of Gen. Meade (1864). Commissioned Major in the Signal Corps (1863); became Colonel in charge of Signal Corps Bureau (1865-66). Brevetted Brig. Gen. and resigned from Army in 1866. Became a lawyer in the Philadelphia area and often spoke on the C...