ALS, 1864 August 15 : Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, in the Field, near Atlanta, Georgia, to Henry Stanbery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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ALS, 1864 August 15 : Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, in the Field, near Atlanta, Georgia, to Henry Stanbery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Sherman writes in response to a request that a Mr. Avery be appointed as an "Aide de Camp." "Mr. Avery must first get a commission in some Regiment actually mustered in and this is subject to selection ... My staff is very small ... I live more like an Indian than a civilized General. It would be a hard life to invite a young gentlemen to ... I advise every young gentleman to get a commission in some volunteer Regiment and serve one period of three years in the rudiments, and then begin to look upwards ..."

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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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...

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