General Sherman's farewell address : manuscript copy, 1865 May 30.

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General Sherman's farewell address : manuscript copy, 1865 May 30.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767526528

An official copy(?) of General Field Orders No. 76 of the farewell address given by General William T. Sherman to his troops following the Civil War.

0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

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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...