1. PBS - THE WEST - William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman. (18201891). Most famous for his scorched-earthtactics in the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sherman.htm

PEOPLE A-C D-H I-R ... Young, Brigham William Tecumseh Sherman Most famous for his scorched-earth tactics in the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman brought that same military philosophy to the West, where he shaped a policy and strategy that would finally subjugate all the native peoples of the plains. Sherman was born in Ohio in 1820 and named after the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, who had tried unsuccessfully in the first decade of the nineteenth century to unite the tribes of the Ohio River Valley against American intrusions on their land. When his father died in 1829, Sherman was raised by a family friend. After graduating sixth in his class from West Point in 1840, Sherman served in South Carolina and Georgia, but saw very little action in the Mexican-American war. He resigned from the Army in 1853 to pursue a career in banking, then a career as a lawyer, but with little success. The Civil War brought him back to active service in 1861, and brought him lasting fame (or infamy) for his "march to the sea," on which he cut a swathe through the heart of the Confederacy, burning Atlanta and laying waste to vast stretches of farmland. At the conclusion of the Civil War, Sherman was appointed commander of the Missouri district, which stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi. Here he deployed troops to protect transcontinental railroad workers from Indians who feared that the railroad would mean further encroachment on their territory. He also established military outposts across the region, expanding the network of federal authority.

2. Bibliography Of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman xiv, 477 p. ill.; 20 cm. Author Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 18201891....... F. Senour. Chicago HM Sherwood, 1865. http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist3/shermbib.html

Home Index By Subject By Year ... The Gift Shop Bibliography of William Tecumseh Sherman Compiled by the Museum of the City of San Francisco From the California State Library System Author: Athearn, Robert G. Title: William Tecumseh Sherman and the settlement of the West. [1st ed.] Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1956] Description: xix, 371 p. illus., ports., maps. 25 cm. Author: Barrett, John Gilchrist. Title: Sherman's march through the Carolinas. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Description: viii, 325 p. maps (on lining papers) 24 cm. Author: Bass, Cynthia. Title: Sherman's march / Cynthia Bass. 1st ed. New York : Villard Books, 1994. Description: 228 p. : map ; 22 cm. Author: Bowman, S. M. (Samuel Millard), 1815-1885. Title: Sherman and his campaigns : a military biography / by S. M. Bowman and R. B. Irwin. New York : C. B. Richardson, 1865. Description: 520 p. : maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Author: Boyd, David French, 1834-1899. Title: General W. T. Sherman as a college president,. Baton Rouge, Ortlieb's printing house, 1910. Description: 8 p. 25 cm.

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4. American Experience | Ulysses S. Grant | People & Events | William Tecumseh Sher People Events William Tecumseh Sherman, 18201891 William Tecumseh Shermanhad a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/p_sherman.html

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant . Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a businessman. Like Grant, he was criticized as an incompetent officer. And like Grant, he became a fierce, uncompromising warrior who helped batter the Confederates into submission during the Civil War. In fact, Sherman spent much of his life providing evidence to support his most famous statement: "War is hell." Sherman was born in Ohio in 1820. When he was just nine, his father died, and he was sent to be raised by a family friend. Sherman graduated from West Point in 1840. He saw his first action in the U.S. war against the Seminole Indians in Florida. During the Mexican War , he served in California and did not see battle. In 1853 Sherman resigned from the Army and traveled to San Francisco, which was then a gold boom town . There, he began work as a banker, but the Panic of 1857 put an end to his banking career. He served briefly as the head of a military academy in Louisiana, but when the Civil War broke out, he joined the U.S. Army as a colonel. Sherman fought at the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, in which Union troops were beaten badly by the Confederate Army. Sent to Kentucky to command troops there, he did poorly. His numerous requests for reinforcements and his generally nervous behavior caused some newspapers to describe him as insane. But with the support of a new commander, Ulysses S. Grant, Sherman found confidence.

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8. Notre Dame Archives Inventory: MSHR William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers Microfilm (MSHR) William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891). William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the most prominent of the Union's Civil War http://archives1.archives.nd.edu/MSHR.HTM

Notre Dame Archives William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers - Microfilm (MSHR) INTRODUCTION This guide and the accompanying fifteen rolls of microfilm are being published by the University of Notre Dame Archives under the sponsorship of the National Historical Publications Commission. In the task of preparing the Sherman Family Papers for microfilming the information acquired at the February, 1966, and May, 1967, meetings at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., of representatives from institutions preparing microfilm publications under grants from the Commission has been invaluable. A debt of gratitude is owed to Dr. Oliver W. Holmes, to the National Historical Publications Commissions, and especially to Mr. Fred Shelley of that Commission for his wise counsel and encouragement. Lawrence J. Bradley, LL.B., M.A. Manuscripts Preparator Notre Dame, Indiana August, 1967 WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN (1820-1891) William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the most prominent of the Union's Civil War generals and for many years thereafter Commanding General of the Army, was born at Lancaster, Ohio, on Feb. 8, 1820, the third son and sixth child of Charles Robert and Mary Hoyt Sherman. His father, a noted Ohio lawyer and judge, had been born and educated at Norwalk, Connecticut. Admitted to the Connecticut bar before he turned twenty-one, Charles Sherman practiced law at Bridgeport for a year. Shortly after his marriage on May 8, 1810, to Mary Hoyt, the daughter of Isaac and Mary Raymond Hoyt of Norwalk, he set out to seek his fortune in Ohio, then a wilderness menaced by hostile Indians. After finally deciding upon Lancaster for his permanent residence, he returned Norwalk for his wife and infant son, Charles. The couple eventually had eleven children.

9. William Tecumseh Sherman Biography Biographical information of one of the better known Northern generals.Category Society History Sherman, William Tecumseh......William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891). He never commanded in a majorUnion victory and his military career had repeated ups and downs http://www.civilwarhome.com/sherbio.htm

William Tecumseh Sherman He never commanded in a major Union victory and his military career had repeated ups and downs, but William T. Sherman is the second best known of Northern commanders. His father had died when he was nine years old, and Sherman was raised by Senator Thomas Ewing and eventually married into the family. Through the influence of his patron, he obtained an appointment to West Point. Only five cadets of the class of 1840 graduated ahead of him, and he was appointed to the artillery. He received a brevet for his services in California during the Mexican War but resigned in 1853 as a captain and commissary officer. The years until the Civil War were not filled with success. Living in California and Kansas, he failed in banking and the law. In 1859 he seemed to have found his niche as the superintendent of a military academy which is now Louisiana State University. However, he resigned this post upon the secession of the state and went to St. Louis as head of a streetcar company and then volunteered for the Union army. Appointed to the colonelcy of one of the regular army's newly authorized infantry regiments, he led the brigade of volunteers of the lst Division which crossed Bull Run to aid the 2nd and 3rd divisions after the attack on the enemy left had begun. Despite being caught up in the route-he already had a low opinion of volunteers-he was named a brigadier general the next month. Briefly commanding a brigade around Washington, he was then sent to Kentucky as deputy to Robert Anderson. He soon succeeded the hero of Fort Sumter in command of the department but got into trouble over his overestimates of the enemy strength. The newspapers actually reported him as being insane.

10. SHERMAN, William Tecumseh, General [1820-1891] - American Army Noted Sherman Relations ^ Sherman, William Tecumseh, General 18201891- American army commander. In 1861 he was appointed a colonel http://dav4is.8m.com/Celebrity/SHER320.html

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11. William T. Sherman (1820-1891) Sherman.bmp (149506 bytes). William Tecumseh Sherman (click on image to enlarge)was the seventh child of Charles Sherman and Mary Hoyt Sherman. http://www.sandcastles.net/williamt.htm

Thomas Ewing Sr. Thomas Ewing Jr. James Ewing George Ewing ... Hon. Thomas Ewing [ William T. Sherman ] Hugh Boyle Ewing General Thomas Ewing General Charles Ewing Thomas Ewing Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman (click on image to enlarge) was the seventh child of Charles Sherman and Mary Hoyt Sherman. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in a small frame house located next door to the large Hon. Thomas Ewing home. Sherman's came to Lancaster just before the War of 1812 because Charles' father, Judge Charles Taylor Sherman of Norwalk, Connecticut, had been given, as indemnity for property lost in Connecticut in the Revolutionary War, title to 2 sections of land in the Western Reserve. Charles had been admitted to the bar in 1810 and married Mary Hoyt shortly thereafter. They came by horseback and covered wagon with their 1st son Charles. Their second child, Elizabeth, was born 10 days after they reached Lancaster. When Charles died in 1829, Mary was left with eleven children. Thomas Ewing offered to take the "smartest" of the boys to raise as his own. Although William was never legally adopted by the Ewing family, he lived with them from the age of nine. In 1836, Ewing obtained "Cump's" appointment to West Pointe. In 1850, Cump married Ewing's daughter, Ellen, in a ceremony at Blair House in Washington D.C. during which time Thomas Ewing held the post of Secretary of the Interior. The marriage was attended by President Taylor. He and Ellen had eight children.

12. General William Tecumseh SHERMAN Ewing Family History (www.sandcastles.net), GeneralWilliam Tecumseh Sherman (18201891). http://www.sandcastles.net/EWING FAMILY HISTORY/1958.htm

Ewing Family History (www.sandcastles.net) General William Tecumseh SHERMAN Family Links Spouses/Children: Eleanor "Ellen" Boyle EWING Maria "Minnie" SHERMAN+ Mary Elizabeth SHERMAN Elizabeth "Lizzie" SHERMAN ... Philemon Tecumseh SHERMAN General William Tecumseh SHERMAN Born: 8 Feb 1820, Lancaster, Fairfield Co., OH Married: 1 May 1850, Blair House, Washington D.C. Died: 1891 Buried: St. Louis, MO General Notes: William Tecumseh Sherman was the seventh child of Charles Sherman and Mary Hoyt Sherman. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in a small frame house located next door to the large Hon. Thomas Ewing (255) home. Sherman's came to Lancaster just before the War of 1812 because Charles' father, Judge Charles Taylor Sherman of Norwalk, Connecticut, had been given, as indemnity for property lost in Connecticut in the Revolutionary War, title to 2 sections of land in the Western Reserve. Charles had been admitted to the bar in 1810 and married Mary Hoyt shortly thereafter. They came by horseback and covered wagon with their 1st son Charles. Their second child, Elizabeth, was born 10 days after they reached Lancaster. When Charles died in 1829, Mary was left with eleven children. Thomas Ewing offered to take the "smartest" of the boys to raise as his own. Although William was never legally adopted by the Ewing family, he lived with them from the age of nine. In 1836, Ewing obtained "Cump's" appointment to West Pointe. In 1850, Cump married Ewing's daughter, Ellen, in a ceremony at Blair House in Washington D.C. during which time Thomas Ewing held the post of Secretary of the Interior. The marriage was attended by President Taylor. He and Ellen had eight children.

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15. The Political Graveyard: Index To Politicians: Sherman Still living as of 1948. Sherman, William Tecumseh (18201891) Son of CharlesRobert Sherman; adoptive son of Thomas Ewing; brother of John Sherman. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html

Questions? Return to The Political Graveyard main page Index to Politicians: Sherman Sherman, A. Outram See Arthur Outram Sherman Sherman, Alice E. G. of Moorestown, Burlington County , N.J. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, Female Burial location unknown Sherman, Alpheus Member of New York state senate 1st District, 1830-33. Burial location unknown Sherman, Alson Born April 21 Mayor of Chicago, Ill. , 1844. Died September 27 . Interment at Oakwood Cemetery , Waukegan, Ill. Sherman, Alvah of Essex County , N.J. Member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1845-46. Burial location unknown Sherman, Arthur G. Republican. Candidate in primary for U.S. Representative from Michigan 14th District, 1946, 1948. Still living as of 1948. Sherman, Arthur Outram also known as A. Outram Sherman of Rye, Westchester County , N.Y. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, ; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 25th District, 1920, 1924. Burial location unknown Sherman, Brad

16. Fourth Of July Speech By William Tecumseh Sherman Address by William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891) Presented in Salem, Illinois,on July 4, 1866. Researched by James R. Heintze. American http://www.american.edu/heintze/Sherman.htm

Address by William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) Presented in Salem, Illinois, on July 4, 1866 Researched by James R. Heintze. American University, Washington, D.C. Editor's note: General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) fought in the Civil War for the Union and is perhaps best remembered for his invasion of Georgia when he captured Atlanta (September 1864) and commenced his "March to the Sea," finally taking Savannah (December). Sherman's army of 60,000 men pillaged and destroyed everything within a 60-mile wide swath of land, 300 miles in length. Although the march was largely unopposed and helped bring the war to a close, the general's tactics were loathed by many. The significance of Sherman's speech below is the explanation he gives as to why he felt compelled to adopt this military tactic. Notice Sherman's comment, "I know there are parties that denounce me as inhuman," voiced before this mostly friendly crowd. Perhaps he was concerned about his legacy in history, given the disfavor of his name in the South, and that this speech was more of an address to the nation than just the residents of Salem. Approximately 25,000 persons were there to hear his speech which he presented on a wooden platform having a backdrop of "tattered battle-flags of various Illinois regiments and mottoes complimentary to General Sherman, Governor Oglesby, and General Logan." In addition, Col. E., N. Bates, of Centralia, read the Declaration of Independence and General John Alexander Logan (1826-1886), Union general and U.S. senator, also gave a speech that day.

17. William T. Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891). Most famous for his scorched-earthtactics in the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman http://www.theoldwestwebride.com/txt5/shermn.html

William Tecumseh Sherman Most famous for his scorched-earth tactics in the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman brought that same military philosophy to the West, where he shaped a policy and strategy that would finally subjugate all the native peoples of the plains. Sherman was born in Ohio in 1820 and named after the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, who had tried unsuccessfully in the first decade of the nineteenth century to unite the tribes of the Ohio River Valley against American intrusions on their land. When his father died in 1829, Sherman was raised by a family friend. After graduating sixth in his class from West Point in 1840, Sherman served in South Carolina and Georgia, but saw very little action in the Mexican-American war. He resigned from the Army in 1853 to pursue a career in banking, then a career as a lawyer, but with little success. The Civil War brought him back to active service in 1861, and brought him lasting fame (or infamy) for his "march to the sea," on which he cut a swathe through the heart of the Confederacy, burning Atlanta and laying waste to vast stretches of farmland. At the conclusion of the Civil War, Sherman was appointed commander of the Missouri district, which stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi. Here he deployed troops to protect transcontinental railroad workers from Indians who feared that the railroad would mean further encroachment on their territory. He also established military outposts across the region, expanding the network of federal authority.

18. Notre Dame Archives Guide 466 Notre Dame Archives. Sherman, William Tecumseh, 18201891. Family papers, 1808-1959.20 linear feet. 15 reels of microfilm. 2 linear feet of photographs. http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/guide/466.htm

Notre Dame Archives Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891. Family papers, 1808-1959. 20 linear feet. 15 reels of microfilm. 2 linear feet of photographs. 11 linear feet of printed material. Folder list with index; also Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers, 1808-1891 (University of Notre Dame Archives, 1967). The sixth of the eleven children of Charles Robert and Mary Hoyt Sherman, upon the death of his father in 1829 he went to live with the Thomas Ewings, a prominent Ohio family. In 1850 Sherman married one of the Ewing daughters, Ellen. They had eight children: Maria Ewing Sherman Fitch, Mary Elizabeth Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jr., Thomas Ewing Sherman, Eleanor Mary Sherman Thackara, Rachel Ewing Sherman Thorndike, Charles Celestine Sherman, and Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman, a West Point graduate and Army captain at the time of his marriage to Ellen, resigned his commission in 1853; before his re-entry into the service in 1861, he served as a banker in California, a lawyer in Ohio, a superintendent of a military academy in Louisiana (forerunner of Louisiana State University), and president of a street railway in St. Louis. His success during the Civil War led eventually to his command of the army in 1869, a position he held until his retirement in 1883. Correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, drafts and copies of articles, speeches and military orders, and explanatory notes; originals, photostats, microfilm, typewritten copies and handwritten copies; also artifacts, books from the Sherman family library, and photographs

19. Notre Dame Archives Index SHM001 William Tecumseh Sherman's Memoirs. Background. American Civil War general.Index Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 18201891. http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/index/SHM001.htm

Notre Dame Archives William Tecumseh Sherman Papers in Other Repositories SHD William Tecumseh Sherman Papers in Other Repositories Extent : 6 reels of microfilm. Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 Administrative Information Source The New York Public Library made the microfilm of Sherman's letters to Major Henry Turner in 1953. Scope and Content Microfilm of William Tecumseh Sherman Papers from repositories other than the Archives of the University of Notre Dame; including Sherman's letters addressed to Major Henry Turner, 1854-1881, and to Maria Ewing Serman, 1851-1891; letters of Ellen Ewing Sherman Letters to Maria Ewing Sherman, 1862-1874; newspaper clippings, 1863-1948, bulk 1892; and William Tecumseh Sherman's Memoirs. Background American Civil War general. Index Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 MSHD William Tecumseh Sherman Papers from Other Repositories: Microfilm MSHM 1 William T. Sherman Letters to Major Henry Turner 1854-1859,1872-1878 MSHM 2 William T. Sherman Letters to Major Henry Turner 1876-1881

20. Notre Dame Archives Index SHR003 Index Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 18201891. Barnard, GeorgeN. Sherman, Ellen Ewing, 1824-1888. Sherman, Maria Ewing, 1851-1913. http://archives1.archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/index/SHR003.htm

Notre Dame Archives SHR Previous : SHR002 classmate, General Joseph E. Johnston, to make overtures for surrender. The liberal terms which Sherman proposed were accepted by Johnston but rejected in a Washington embittered by the recent assassination of Lincoln and they earned for Sherman the hostile criticism of Secretary of War Stanton and radical Northern newspapers. Nevertheless, he emerged from the War, along with Ulysses S. Grant and the Philip H. Sheridan, as one of the North's three most famous heroes. After the termination of hostilities, Sherman remained in the army and proceeded to St. Louis where he took over command of the Division of the Mississippi. Offered a cabinet post as Secretary of War by President Johnson in January, 1868, he declined despite his sympathy for Johnson in the latter's difficulties. Upon Grant's inauguration as President, Sherman, on Mar. 4, 1869, assumed command of the army, a post he retained until his retirement from active service. As commanding general, in addition to the normal duties of the office, he was forced continually to do battle with politicians eager to reduce the peacetime army to a strength which he considered incompatible with national security.

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