SHERMAN 



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SHERMAN 



the superior court of Connecticut and as a 

 member of the Connecticut senate, and he was 

 on the committees that framed the Declaration 

 and the Articles 

 of Confederation. 

 In 1784 he was 

 elected mayor of 

 New Haven. 

 When the first 

 United States 

 Congress met 

 Sherman had a 

 seat in the 

 House of Repre- 

 sentatives, but in 

 the same year he 

 was elected to the ROGER SHERMAN 



Senate (1791), where he represented his state 

 until his death. 



SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH (1820-1891), 

 one of the greatest Union generals of the War 

 of Secession, whose name is associated particu- 

 larly with the famous march "from Atlanta to 

 the sea." He was a brother of the statesman 

 John Sherman, 

 and was born at 

 Lancaster, Ohio, 

 on February 8, 

 1820. Left fa- 

 therless in his 

 boyhood, he was 

 adopted and 

 brought up by 

 Thomas Ewing, 

 the first Secretary 

 of the Interior. 

 Sherman was 

 graduated from 

 West Point in 1840, near the head of the class, 

 and entered the service with the rank of second- 

 lieutenant of artillery. For the next few years 

 he was stationed in the South, where he had 

 his first experience in warfare against the Semi- 

 nole Indians. In his leisure moments he studied 

 law. During the war with Mexico he served 

 in California as assistant adjutant-general, and 

 in 1853 retired to civilian life and became a 

 banker in San Francisco. Here he remained un- 

 til 1857. In the interval between 1857 and the 

 outbreak of the War of Secession he practiced 

 law in Leavenworth, Kan., and acted as super- 

 intendent of a military academy in Louisiana. 



Sherman rejoined the army in May, 1861, 

 and was shortly afterwards raised to the rank 

 of brigadier-general of volunteers. In October 

 he was placed in charge of the Department of 



GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN 

 One of the commanding fig- 

 ures of the War of Secession. 



Kentucky, but was relieved of the command 

 by Buell in November because he reported that 

 the campaign in the West needed an army of 

 200,000 men. Sherman's j udgment in the matter 

 proved to be correct. In April, 1862, he was 

 able to give Grant substantial assistance at the 

 Battle of Shiloh and was raised to the rank of 

 major-general of volunteers. He continued to 

 cooperate with Grant, and following the cap- 

 ture of Vicksburg was made brigadier-general 

 in the regular army. After further valuable 

 service in Tennessee and Mississippi, he was 

 assigned to the chief command of the Military 

 Division of the Mississippi. 



In the spring of 1864 Sherman began his 

 famous invasion of Georgia, with an army of 

 100,000 men. Atlanta was taken on Septem- 

 ber 1. Then followed the march to the sea, 

 which ended on December 21 with the capture 

 of Savannah. Early in 1865 he started north- 

 ward, worked his way through South and North 

 Carolina, and on April 18 received the surren- 

 der of Joseph E. Johnston's army, at Durham's 

 Station. Lee, meanwhile, had surrendered to 

 Grant, and the war was at an end. 



Sherman remained on the active army list 

 until 1884. In August, 1864, he had been ap- 

 pointed major-general in the regular army, and 

 when, in July, 1866, Grant was made general, 

 Congress conferred on Sherman the rank of 

 lieutenant-general. On Grant's ascendancy to 

 the Presidency, in 1869, Sherman became com- 

 manding general of the United States army, and 

 he held this rank for fourteen years, when he 

 was retired at his own request. In 1875 he pub- 

 lished his Memoirs, in two volumes. B.M.W. 



Consult Bradford's Union Portraits. 



SHERMAN, TEX., the county seat of Gray- 

 son County, is a thriving manufacturing city 

 and shipping center in the northeastern part of 

 the state, fifteen miles south of the Oklahoma 

 state line. It is ten miles south of Denison and 

 sixty-four miles north and east of Dallas, and 

 is connected with both cities by interurban 

 lines. The railroads intersecting here are the 

 Frisco Lines, the Houston & Texas Central, the 

 Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Saint Louis 

 Southwestern, the Texas & Pacific and the 

 Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf. The population, 

 which in 1910 was 12,412, was 13,667 (Federal 

 estimate) in 1916. The area is more than four 

 square miles. 



The educational institutions of the city include 

 Austin College (Presbyterian), North Texas 

 Female College (Methodist), Carr-Carlton Col- 



