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William Tecumseh Sherman past away at 1:50 P.M. on Saturday, February 14, 1891 in New York City. His funeral was held as his home on February 19. One of his pallbearers, Joseph E. Johnston, refused to wear hat during the funeral out of respect for Sherman, even though it was extremely cold that day.
Feb 8, 2023 · Added: Apr 25, 1998. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 951. Source citation. Civil War Union Major General and later General of the United States Army. William Tecumseh Sherman was born 8 February 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, into a family of eleven. His father, a lawyer and jurist, died when he was nine, leaving the family destitute.
- He Was Named For A Shawnee Chief.
- He Married His Foster Sister.
- He Played A Role in Triggering The California Gold Rush.
- He Had A Rocky Career in Business.
- He May Have Suffered A Nervous Breakdown During The Civil War.
- He Cut Off All Lines of Communication During The March to The Sea.
- He Offered Lenient Terms of Surrender to Defeated Confederates.
- He Also Used His “Scorched Earth” Brand of Warfare Against Native Americans.
- He Repeatedly Declined to Run For President.
William Tecumseh Sherman (known as “Cump” to his friends) was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on February 8, 1820. His father gave him his unusual middle name as a nod to the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, a magnetic leader who built a confederacy of Ohio Indian tribes and fought with the British during the War of 1812. A relative later wrote that Sherman’s fath...
After losing his father at the age of 9, Sherman was sent to live with Thomas Ewing, a renowned Ohio attorney and family friend who later served as a senator and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. The young Sherman grew close with Ewing’s eldest daughter, Ellen, and they regularly corresponded through letters during his tenure at West Point and hi...
While stationed in San Francisco in 1848, Sherman helped convince military governor Richard Mason to investigate one of the first reported gold discoveries in California. He was on the scene during a mission that confirmed the existence of rich gold deposits along the Sacramento River, and later penned the letter Mason sent to Washington relaying t...
After missing out on combat in the Mexican American War and enduring a series of lackluster assignments, Sherman left the military in 1853 to run a San Francisco bank. While he proved a competent businessman, the move corresponded with the bursting of the Gold Rush bubble, and his branch collapsed in the ensuing financial hysteria. Sherman was left...
Following a promising performance at July 1861’s First Battle of Bull Run, Sherman was promoted to brigadier general and eventually given command of Union troops in Kentucky and Tennessee. Sherman hadn’t wanted the role, and in short order, the weight of its responsibilities took a toll on his mental health. He vastly overestimated the size of Conf...
Sherman’s March to the Sea was one of the most stunning operations of the Civil War, yet few people outside of Georgia knew anything about it while it was underway. Before leaving Atlanta, Sherman intentionally severed all telegraph links to the North to help shroud his moves in secrecy. The plan meant the Confederates could only speculate about wh...
Despite his reputation for “hard” warfare, Sherman could also be surprisingly—perhaps even naively—generous in victory. When he accepted Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston’s surrender in Durham, North Carolina, in April 1865, Sherman offered very forgiving terms that granted general amnesty to the rebels and even allowed for the Southern states...
After the Civil War, Sherman was given command of the Military Division of the Mississippi and tasked with pacifying the Plains Indians during the building of the transcontinental railroad. Sherman took to the job with characteristic vigor, orchestrating the relocation of the tribes and warning their chiefs, “you cannot stop the locomotive any more...
Sherman made no secret of his disdain for politics, once quipping that he would rather spend four years in jail than in the White House. Nevertheless, during the 1870s and 1880s, Washington D.C., movers and shakers often tried—and failed—to convince him to make a run at the presidency. Sherman tried to stamp out the speculation once and for all in ...
Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. late retired general, U.S.A. : a graphic history of his career in war and peace ; his romantic youth : his stern and patriotic manhood : his calm and beautiful old age : a marvelous march from the mountain of time to the sea of eternity by Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931
May 15, 2024 · William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.
- Male
- February 8, 1820
- Eleanor Boyle (Ewing) Sherman
- February 14, 1891
Oct 22, 2014 · Biography: Sherman was one of eleven children. After his father's sudden death in 1829, Sherman's family was forced to move around to stay with different friends and relatives. One of those friends was Senator Thomas Ewing. He secured Sherman a place in the United States Military Academy, where he went on to graduate sixth in his class.
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William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies he implemented in conducting ...
