★★★ Sherman, William Tecumseh

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Born:
February 8, 1820

Birthplace: Lancaster, Ohio

Father: Charles Robert Sherman 1788 – 1829
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio)​

Mother: Mary Hoyt 1787 – 1852
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio)​

Wife: Eleanor Boyle “Ellen” Ewing 1824 – 1888
(Buried: Cavalry Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri)​

Married: May 1, 1850 in Washington, D.C. at Blair House

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Children:


Maria Ewing “Minnie” Sherman Fitch 1851 – 1913
(Buried: Cavalry Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri)


Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sherman 1852 – 1925
(Buried: Cavalry Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri)


William Tecumseh “Willie” Sherman 1854 – 1863
(Buried: Cavalry Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri)


Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman 1856 – 1933
(Buried: Jesuit Cemetery, Grand Coteau, Louisiana)


Eleanor Mary Sherman Thackara 1859 – 1915


Rachel Ewing “Rachey” Sherman Thorndike 1861 – 1919
(Buried: Central Cemetery, Beverly, Massachusetts)


Charles Celestine Sherman 1864 – 1864
(Buried: Cavalry Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri)


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Philemon Tecumseh Sherman 1867 – 1941
(Buried: Cavalry Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri)​

Education:

1840: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (6th in class)​

Occupation before War:

1840 – 1841: 2nd Lt. United States Army 3rd Artillery


1841 – 1850: 1st Lt. United States Army 3rd Artillery


1848: Brevetted Captain for Service in California during Mexican War


1850 – 1853: Captain and Commissary Officer in United States Army


1853: Resigned from United States Army on September 6th


1853 – 1857: Banker in San Francisco, California


1856: Major General of California State Militia


1857: Banker in New York City, New York


1858 – 1859: Attorney in Leavenworth, Kansas


1859 – 1861: Superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary


1861: President of Fifth Street Railroad in St. Louis, Missouri​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1863: Colonel of United States Army, 13th Infantry Regiment


1861: Served in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.


1861 – 1862: Brigadier General of Union Army Volunteers Infantry


1861: Brigade Commander at First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia


1861: Served in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.


1861: Served in Union Army Department of the Missouri


1861 – 1862: Commander of Camp of Instruction in St. Louis, Mo.


1862: Commander of the District of Paducah, Kentucky


1862: Aided in sending troops to capture of Fort Donelson, TN.


1862: Division Commander during Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee


1862 – 1864: Major General of Union Army Volunteers Infantry


1862: Served in the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi


1862: Commander of Union Army District of Memphis, Tennessee


1863 – 1864: Commander of 15th Army Corps Union Army


1863: Served in the Expedition to Arkansas Post


1863: Served in the Seizure of Walnut Hills, Mississippi


1863: Served in the Vicksburg, Mississippi Campaign


1863 – 1864: Brigadier General of United States Army


1863: Commander of Expedition from the Big Black River


1863: Union Army Commander First Battle of Collierville, TN.


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1863 – 1864:
Commander Army of the Tennessee


1863: Commander during the Chattanooga Campaign


1864: Led Expedition to Meridian, Mississippi


1864 – 1866: Major General of United States Army


1864 – 1866: Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi


1864: Union Army Commander during the Atlanta, Georgia Campaign


1864: Leader of Sherman’s March to the Sea in Georgia


1864: Presented Savannah, Georgia to Lincoln as Christmas Gift


1865: Union Army Commander of the Campaign for the Carolina’s


1865: Received Surrender of General Joseph Johnston in Durham, N.C.​

Occupation after War:


1864 – 1866: Major General of United States Army


1866 – 1869: Lt. General of United States Army


1866: Member of Board for Brevets Recommendations


1866 – 1869: Commander of U.S. Army Division of the Missouri


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1867 – 1868:
Member of Board to examine Proposed Army Regulation


1869 – 1884: General of United States Army


1869 – 1883: Commanding General of United States Army


1874: President of Howard Court of Inquiry


1875: One of the First Civil War Generals to publish a memoir


1877: Inspection Tour on Yellowstone River in Montana Territory


1879: Speaker at Michigan Military Academy Graduation


1881: Helped establish Command School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas


1884: Refused to be a Candidate for Republican Nomination


1884 – 1891: Devoted his life to theater and painting in New York City


1888 – 1891: Member of Boone and Crockett Club​

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Died:
February 14, 1891

Time of Death: 1:50 PM

Place of Death: New York City, New York

Cause of Death: Pneumonia

Age at time of Death: 71 years old

Burial Place: Cavalry Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri

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To All of the Faithful,

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To All of the Faithful,

We of the One True Shrine do hereby offer our thanks for the birthday of our Revered One!

A hundred candles burn bright and hot to honor Him of the One True Shrine!

We hereby instruct all of our followers in other approved minor houses to proclaim far and wide their intent to honor Him in similar fashion.

All Glory to the One and True Shrine!

(And watch out for those lose matches! We don't want another Atlanta on our hands.) :wink:

Signed Unionblue, Keeper of the One Truer Shrine!
Ever been to Lancaster, Unionblue? Nice town. Though I don't think Cump really cared for it.
 
Been there many times and even participated in a couple of reenactments there.

Visited the True One's home even.p
It's been a few years since I have been there. The last time I was there, one of the ladies who runs the tour was talking about his descendants. As you know his sons had no kids but the daughters did. She said one of the g grandsons lives in England. From what she says he is the spitting image of the White Tecumseh himself.
 
I find Sherman an interesting individual. I think my next book will probably be a Sherman biography.
@Pete Longstreet ,

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And if you, perchance, run out of matches, contact the nearest One and True Shrine local in your area for resupply. Your local Fire Station can give you directions. :wink:

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Keeper of The One True Shrine.
 
Ah Sherman...where to begin with this man?
While I and others are extremely critical of his pre-1864 record, his time in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi in the invasion of Georgia and eventually the Carolinas was probably the finest campaigning any American army ever experienced; driving deep into enemy territory; usually avoiding engaging in pointless pitched battles; destroying Confederate infrastructure and ending slavery throughout the region by his presence. His actions were for many months the only bright patch of news for the war effort in that difficult year, with Grant's other thrust being neutered or stymied and Confederate troops running havoc in the Shenandoah. His March to the Sea scared the hell out of many Georgian soldiers, and desertions increased dramatically. This would weaken Lee around Petersburg dramatically, and give Grant the opportunity to end the contest by late March. His push through the Carolinas deprived the Confederacy of its last pieces of integrity and territory.
His personal views were conservative and controversial for their time. He didn't see blacks as equals, but did prefer reforms to ease restrictions on slaves. He generally thought lowly of the Southern Upper Class, seeing them as generally lazy; whilst he often praised the more common Southerners for their grit (He's partly responsible for N. B. Forrest being placed on such a pedestal as he was in the mythos of "The Cause", claiming he was essentially the only general who scared him). His General Order #15 (also known apocryphally by the term "Forty Acres and a Mule") was a way to rid his column of many black freeman who had tagged along with his command for the great march; he figured settling them (he intended the measure to be temporary) would do more good than harm for the time. When the order was countermanded in 1866 by President Johnson, Sherman, the author of the order, did not seem to comment. While he held strong political beliefs, he was unwilling to run for political office, despite his popularity juxtaposed with his friend/rival Grant.
 
While he held strong political beliefs, he was unwilling to run for political office, despite his popularity juxtaposed with his friend/rival Gran
My major criticism of Sherman relates to his racial beliefs and his political naivete. The agreement he negotiated with Johnston to surrender the AoT was nothing short of a political blunder of the first magnitude. (That agreement would have preserved the privileges and authority of existing southern governments and presumably "property rights" to slaves.) Sherman defended his action by asserting that he was simply adhering to Lincoln's desire for reconciliation with the defeated south, but that assumption was not only wrong, it flew in the face of what Sherman's strictly military obligations were in regard to treating with an enemy opponent. No wonder that the agreement aroused such hostility from Stanton and the Johnson administration. Luckily for Sherman's career, Grant was able to use his friendship with Sherman to have the agreement re-negotiated along the lines of the military surrender that Grant had arranged with Lee at Appomattox. No doubt, Sherman made the right decision in not running for political office.
 
"I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
William T. Sherman

"You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
William T. Sherman

"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other."
William T. Sherman
 
"I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
William T. Sherman

"You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
William T. Sherman

"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other."
William T. Sherman
I like the the "Vox Populi , Vox Humbug" guote on the Ken Burns' documentary. It sounded so "Shermanesk"
 
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