Life and Reminiscences of General Wm. T. ShermanR. H. Woodward Company, 1891 - 479 pages This is a collection of thoughts and reminiscences on General Sherman from the most important and influential men of the day. Published the year of his death, it includes tributes from President Hayes, senators, high-profile priests and judges. |
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... West Point for his young charge . Entering the Military Academy in 1836 , Cadet Sherman was graduated in 1840 , sixth in his class ; and that class contained another very famous soldier , George H. Thomas , besides Ewell , Getty and ...
... West Point for his young charge . Entering the Military Academy in 1836 , Cadet Sherman was graduated in 1840 , sixth in his class ; and that class contained another very famous soldier , George H. Thomas , besides Ewell , Getty and ...
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... west to the ocean , the town of Monterey being visible sixty miles off . We beheld from its mountains the firing of a salute from the battery of Monterey , and counted the number of guns from the white puffs of smoke , but could not ...
... west to the ocean , the town of Monterey being visible sixty miles off . We beheld from its mountains the firing of a salute from the battery of Monterey , and counted the number of guns from the white puffs of smoke , but could not ...
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... West Point . The marriage ceremony was attended by a very distinguished assembly , including the President and all his Cabinet . During the following Sep- tember he was made a captain in the Commissary Department and was ordered to take ...
... West Point . The marriage ceremony was attended by a very distinguished assembly , including the President and all his Cabinet . During the following Sep- tember he was made a captain in the Commissary Department and was ordered to take ...
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... West General Sherman astonished him by de- claring that it would take 60,000 men to drive the enemy out of Kentucky and 200,000 to finish the war in that section . This declaration and other evidences of prescience , coupled with his ...
... West General Sherman astonished him by de- claring that it would take 60,000 men to drive the enemy out of Kentucky and 200,000 to finish the war in that section . This declaration and other evidences of prescience , coupled with his ...
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... Western campaigns . But a very unfavorable impression had undoubt- edly been created by this declaration of the needs of the West . Soon afterward General Buell re- lieved him from the command of the department , and Sherman was put in ...
... Western campaigns . But a very unfavorable impression had undoubt- edly been created by this declaration of the needs of the West . Soon afterward General Buell re- lieved him from the command of the department , and Sherman was put in ...
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