S. H. M. Byers sheet music, 1865.

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S. H. M. Byers sheet music, 1865.

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This collection contains the sheet music for "When Sherman Marched Down to the Sea," written by S. M. H. Byers with music composed by E. Mack. This piece of sheet music was published in 1865 by Lee & Walker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and celebrates Sherman's bold march through Georgia.

1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7554551

Georgia Historical Society

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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...

Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall), 1838-1933

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Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers was born in Pennsylvania in 1838 and moved to Burlington, Iowa in 1851. Byers had studied law before enlisting as a First Corporal in Company B of the Fifth Iowa Infantry in 1861. By July 1862 he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant, he became the regimental adjutant in April 1863, and later that year he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chattanooga with eighty other members of his regiment. Byers spent the next sixteen months in five different Confederate priso...