ALS, 1863 March 4, "Head Qrs. 15 Army Corps, Camp upon Vicksburg" to General Irvin McDowell.

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ALS, 1863 March 4, "Head Qrs. 15 Army Corps, Camp upon Vicksburg" to General Irvin McDowell.

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Sherman sides with General McDowell in his political battle against a "Court of Inquiry" for his actions in the Second Battle of Bull Run, then angrily condemns the press and their "spies" (one of whom he has just successfully prosecuted) who have pushed him to the brink of retirement.

2 p., 19.3 x 25.4 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7417603

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...

McDowell, Irwin, 1818-1885.

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