How Sherman opened communication with God's county : typescript copy, circa 1890.

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How Sherman opened communication with God's county : typescript copy, circa 1890.

Contains a typescript copy of essay by Lieutenant William Ware of the Signal Corps about General Sherman's taking of Fort McAllister in December 1864. With a letter from Sherman to Ware about the essay and a copy of the essay printed in The American Thresherman, July 1911, p. 36-. Also includes Ware's discharge orders for September 1, 1865.

0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8175742

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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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...

Ware, William, Lieutenant.

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