Papers, 1864 May 20.

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Papers, 1864 May 20.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6573204

Contemporary copy of a letter, May 20, 1864, from Edwin M. Stanton to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman at Kingston, Ga., thanking him and his officers and praising them for their services.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7947411

Ohio History Connection, Ohio 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...

Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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