William T. Sherman letter, 1890 Nov. 10.

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William T. Sherman letter, 1890 Nov. 10.

In a letter to Colonel John Eaton Tourtellotte, General Sherman comments on the conclusion in the History of the Civil War in America by the Count of Paris. He expresses disappointment that important battles of the West were not included, as Sherman had suggested. He gives a description of the Duke of Orleans and he states that neither the French or Americans would accept the doctrine of inheriting the right to rule.

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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...

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Orléans, Louis Philippe Robert, duc d', 1869-1926

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Tourtellotte, John Eaton.

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