"Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." [159], Following Lee's surrender and the assassination of Lincoln, Sherman met with Johnston on April 17, 1865, at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, to negotiate a Confederate surrender. Mitchell. [93] At Shiloh, Sherman was wounded twicein the hand and shoulderand had three horses shot out from under him. [212] One of Sherman's tactics was to destroy the railways by pulling up the rails, heating them over a bonfire, and twisting them to leave behind what came to known as "Sherman's neckties". [98] Grant made Sherman a corps commander and put him in charge of half of his forces. [260], Proposed as a Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1884, Sherman declined as emphatically as possible, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected. For anyone who is interested, there is a very good biography written about Gen. Sherman titled "Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman" written by Robert O'Connell in 2014. In 1869 he became Commanding General of the Army, a post he held until he retired in 1883. [80], Having succeeded Anderson at Louisville, Sherman now had principal military responsibility for Kentucky, a border state in which the Confederates held Columbus and Bowling Green, and were also present near the Cumberland Gap. [109] During the long and complicated maneuvers against Vicksburg, one newspaper complained that the "army was being ruined in mud-turtle expeditions, under the leadership of a drunkard [Grant], whose confidential adviser [Sherman] was a lunatic". [l], The gilded bronze Sherman Memorial (1902) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens stands at the Grand Army Plaza near the main entrance to New York City's Central Park. Enter a grandparent's name. [113] His family traveled from Ohio to visit him at the camp near Vicksburg. The name Tecumseh was from a Native American chief: Tecumseh (/tkms, tkmsi/ ti-KUM-s, ti-KUM-see; c. 1768 October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. "[276] In letters written in 1865 to Thomas, his eldest surviving son, General Sherman said "I don't want you to be a soldier or a priest, but a good useful man",[277] and complained that Thomas's mother Ellen "thinks religion is so important that everything else must give way to it". You are bound to fail. [111], During the siege of Vicksburg, Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston had gathered a force of 30,000 men in Jackson, Mississippi, with the intention of relieving the garrison under the command of John C. Pemberton that was trapped inside Vicksburg. Sherman took command of the infantrymen in the local Union garrison and successfully repelled the Confederate attack. In October, Sherman succeeded Anderson in command of that department. I have just posted to the profile, in the Images, a newspaper article detailing the friendship of David F. Boyd and William T. Sherman. General Sherman was born February 8, 1820, and named William Tecumseh after the great Shawnee leader but acquired the nickname "Cump" from his siblings. Although his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the War of 1812, he became an iconic folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history. William Tecumseh Sherman, profile of the week, here is a story: Which US Civil War General are you most closely connected to? Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate officer who had commanded the resistance to Sherman's troops in Georgia and the Carolinas, served as a pallbearer in New York City. Share to Twitter. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? Reported! "[255], One of Sherman's significant contributions as head of the Army was the establishment of the Command School (now the Command and General Staff College) at Fort Leavenworth[256] in 1881. According to Holden-Reid, Sherman finally "had cut his teeth as an army commander" with the Jackson Expedition. According to Sherman's biographer Robert O'Connell, "Shiloh marked the turning point of his life. [51][52] In 1856, during the vigilante period, he served briefly as a major general of the California militia. [99] According to historian John D. Winters's The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), at this stage Sherman, had yet to display any marked talents for leadership. American Libraries; Canadian Libraries; Universal Library; Memoirs of General William T. Sherman Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. In 1878, he returned to New Orleans, accompanied by the Confederate General John Bell Hood no Yankee sympathizer and then went back to campus, where he was met by throngs of awaiting students. Sherman Thought It an Insult to Whites to Consider Blacks Their Equals Descendants. Sherman wrote both to his brother, Senator John Sherman, and to General Grant vehemently repudiating any such promotion. WebFather of William Tecumseh Sherman 2nd Generation Ahnentafel No: 2 Father: Taylor Sherman Mother: Elizabeth "Betsey" Stoddard Birth Date: 26 Sep 1788 Birth Location: Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Christening Date: Christening Location: Death Date: 24 Jun 1829 Death Location: Lebanon, Warren, Ohio Burial Date: Burial Location: Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and other facts about his life. Publication date 1886 Publisher New York, D. A. Appleton and company William Tecumseh Sherman, was born February 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio. "[216][217][218] Sherman himself stated that "[i]f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village; but I did not do it"[219] Sherman's official report on the burning placed the blame on Confederate lieutenant general Wade Hampton, who Sherman said had ordered the burning of cotton in the streets. [309], Other posthumous tributes include Sherman Circle in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C.,[310] the M4 Sherman tank, which was named by the British during World War II,[311] and the "General Sherman" Giant Sequoia tree, which is the most massive documented single-trunk tree in the world. Sherman survived two shipwrecks and floated through the Golden Gate on the overturned hull of a foundering lumber schooner. WebHe left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. [19][20] As an adult, Sherman signed all his correspondence including to his wife "W. T. He married Eleanor Boyle Ewing on 1 May 1850, in Washington D.C., United States. Shortly after the Union forces occupied Corinth on May 30, Sherman persuaded Grant not to resign from his command, despite the serious difficulties he was having with Halleck. I remember well how it grieved you to leave us, he wrote Sherman, and how sorry we were to see you go.. When comparing Sherman's scorched-earth campaigns to the actions of the British Army during the Second Boer War (18991902) another war in which civilians were targeted because of their central role in sustaining a belligerent power South African historian Hermann Giliomee claims that it "looks as if Sherman struck a better balance than the British commanders between severity and restraint in taking actions proportional to legitimate needs". He began LSU, Louisiana's State University, before the war and ended up fighting against his own students. [262], In 1886, after the publication of Grant's memoirs, Sherman produced a "second edition, revised and corrected" of his own memoirs. [290] Sherman was thus presented by Lost-Cause authors as the antithesis of the Southern ideals of chivalry supposedly embodied by General Lee. It seems General Sherman also had his guys spare the old Boyd home in Wytheville VA when they were burning down everything around it during the War. 1869-1883. Thus, he was living in the border state of Missouri as the secession crisis reached its climax. Birthdate: circa October 25, 1866. [45][46] He resigned his commission in 1853 and entered civilian life as manager of the San Francisco branch of the Bank of Lucas, Turner & Co., whose corporate headquarters were in St. Louis. According to Liddell Hart, this strategy was most clearly illustrated by Sherman's series of turning movements against Johnston during the Atlanta campaign. [15] However, Lloyd Lewis's 1932 biography claimed that Sherman was originally named only "Tecumseh" and that he acquired the name "William" at the age of nine or ten, when he was baptized as a Catholic at the behest of his foster family. [188][191], Sherman's military legacy rests primarily on his command of logistics and on his brilliance as a strategist. [102] Soon after, Major General John A. McClernand ordered Sherman's XV Corps to join in his assault on Arkansas Post. [307], The General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument (1903) by Carl Rohl-Smith[308] stands near President's Park in Washington, D.C.[309] The bronze monument consists of an equestrian statue of Sherman and a platform with a soldier at each corner, representing the infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineer branches of the U.S. Army. WebWilliam Tecumseh Sherman. [136][137] Sherman left forces under Maj. Gens. Thomas Ewing Sherman son Rachel Ewing Thorndike daughter Robert Otho Sherman son Eleanor Mary Thackara daughter Mary A. Pickering daughter William Tecumseh Sherman, Jr. son You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. ", On May 1, 1850, William married Ellen Ewing in Washington D.C.[1], William died on February 14, 1891 in Manhattan, New York. Ewing was a prominent member of the Whig Party who became U.S. senator for Ohio and the first Secretary of the Interior. The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. Louis. His men swore by him, and most of his fellow officers admired him. Evarts, the polished, urbane, witty New Yorker; George Hoar, the sharp, petulant, bright, nagging New Englander; John Sherman, the unostentatious, but persistent Westerner. During this time he was a member of the Indian Peace Commission. Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing Jr., who was a defense attorney in the military trials of the Lincoln conspirators. Another younger brother, Hoyt Sherman, was a successful banker. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. [25] About his time at West Point, Sherman says only the following in his Memoirs: At the Academy I was not considered a good soldier, for at no time was I selected for any office, but remained a private throughout the whole four years. William Tecumseh Sherman [1032] ,1 son of Charles Robert Sherman [1030] and Mary Hoyt [1031], was born on 8 Feb 1820 in. Genealogy; Lincoln Collection; Top. [248][i] Grant, who was president when Sherman's memoirs appeared, later remarked that others had told him that Sherman treated Grant unfairly but "when I finished the book, I found I approved every word; that it was a true book, an honorable book, creditable to Sherman, just to his companionsto myself particularly sojust such a book as I expected Sherman would write."[251]. https://www.theadvocate.com/content/tncms/live/. [289] In this new discourse, Sherman's devastation of railroads and plantations mattered less than his perceived insults to southern dignity and especially to its unprotected white womanhood. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. Above all else, putting Shermans name on a plaque would help us remember this that war makes for complex friendships, and some of them happened here at LSU. [107] Sherman initially expressed reservations about the wisdom of these plans, but he soon submitted to Grant's leadership and the campaign in the spring of 1863 cemented Sherman's personal ties to Grant. Thousands of refugees, both black and white, joined Sherman's columns, which on February 20 finally withdrew towards Canton. In February 1864, he commanded an expedition to Meridian, Mississippi, intended to disrupt Confederate infrastructure and communications. WebA chronology of key events in the life of William T. Sherman, 1820-1891. [305] Sherman is represented astride his horse Ontario and led by a winged female figure of Victory. When he attempted to attack the main spine at Tunnel Hill, his troops were repeatedly repelled by Patrick Cleburne's heavy division, the best unit in Bragg's army. , Eleanor Mary (Sherman) Thackara , Rachel Ewing (Sherman) Thorndike , Charles Celestine Sherman and Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. American historian Wesley Moody has argued that these commentators tended to filter Sherman's actions and his hard-war strategy through their own ideas about modern warfare, thereby contributing to the exaggeration of his "atrocities" and unintentionally feeding into the negative assessment of Sherman's moral character associated with the "Lost Cause" school of Southern historiography. LSU already remembers plenty of Confederate officers like the admiral Raphael Semmes and the soldier-turned-LSU president David French Boyd. ", Birthplace and childhood home of General. Sherman". [81][82] He was promptly replaced by Don Carlos Buell and transferred to St. Louis. I am not and cannot be. [306] Arlington National Cemetery features a smaller version of Saint-Gaudens's statue of Victory. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. 0% Complete. "[294] Following Walters, James Reston Jr. argued in 1984 that Sherman had planted the "seed for the Agent Orange and Agent Blue programs of food deprivation in Vietnam". He served as a Generalin the Union Armyduring the American Civil War(186165). Ewing was a prominent member of the Whig Party who became U.S. senator for Ohio and the first Secretary of the Interior. William Tecumseh Sherman (known as Cump to his friends) was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on February 8, 1820. [119][120] Sherman's army captured the city of Meridian on February 14 and proceeded to destroy 105 miles of railroad and 61 bridges, while burning at least 10 locomotives and 28 railcars. We are featuring this profile in the Connection Finder this week. Thomas Ewing Sherman You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Add a caption. WebWhen Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was born on 8 February 1820, in Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio, United States, his father, Hon. A Northerner, Sherman stayed behind for weeks after Louisiana seceded to make sure the schools finances were in order. In early November, Sherman asked to be relieved of his command. [76] During the fighting, Sherman was grazed by bullets in the knee and shoulder. [135] In response, Hood moved north into Tennessee. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. . Louis. Our family has a number of letters written by WT Sherman before the war. [192] Liddell Hart's views on the historical significance of Sherman have since been discussed and, to varying extents, defended by subsequent military scholars such as Jay Luvaas,[193] Victor Davis Hanson,[194] and Brian Holden-Reid. When the bank failed during the Panic of 1857, he closed the New York branch. Senator Ewing secured an appointment for the 16-year-old Sherman as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Charles Robert Sherman, was 31 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Hoyt, was 32. [121], The Meridian campaign marked the end of Sherman's brief tenure as commander of the Army of the Tennessee. Amazon.com: Home Letters of General Sherman: 9781162940793: Sherman, William Tecumseh, Howe, Mark A. Family. [2], Calvary Cemetery & Mausoleum, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri. See: Great photo of him on a horse found here: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNT9-ZZ4, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WDX-Q8V, Hathitrust.org - The Life of Gen. Wm. Other. [124] As Grant took overall command of the armies of the United States, Sherman wrote to him outlining his strategy to bring the war to an end: "If you can whip Lee and I can march to the Atlantic I think ol' Uncle Abe [Lincoln] will give us twenty days leave to see the young folks. [237], Displacement of the Plains Indians was facilitated by the growth of the railroads and the eradication of the bison. In his memoirs, Sherman said, "In my official report of this conflagration, I distinctly charged it to General Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly, to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was in my opinion boastful, and professed to be the special champion of South Carolina. [14], Sherman's unusual given name has always attracted attention. Sherman was beloved and respected during those early days of LSU. Descendants of William Tecumseh Sherman. [87] Operating from Paducah, Kentucky, he provided logistical support for the operations of Grant to capture Fort Donelson in February 1862. Thomas Ewing Sherman son Rachel Ewing Thorndike daughter Robert Otho Sherman son Eleanor Mary Thackara daughter Mary A. Pickering daughter William Tecumseh Sherman, Jr. son He led Union forces in crushing campaigns through the South, marching through Georgia and the Carolinas (186465). , Eleanor Mary (Sherman) Thackara , Rachel Ewing (Sherman) Thorndike , Charles Celestine Sherman and Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman's efforts in that position were focused on protecting the main wagon roads, such as the Oregon, Bozeman, and Santa Fe Trails. [185], Towards the end of the Civil War, some elements within the Republican Party regarded Sherman as being strongly prejudiced against black people. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in FamilySearch Family Tree view all 25 Immediate Family Eleanor Boyle Sherman wife Maria Ewing Fitch daughter Rev. : Dear Tommy", "General William Tecumseh Sherman 1888, cast 1910", "The sculpture "Victory" fully restored, on display at the Memorial Amphitheater", "General William Tecumseh Sherman Statue", "Firefighters are girding Earth's biggest tree. Although Sherman was technically the senior officer, he wrote to Grant, "I feel anxious about you as I know the great facilities [the Confederates] have of concentration by means of the River and R[ail] Road, but [I] have faith in youCommand me in any way. [224][h], In June 1865, two months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Sherman received his first postwar command, originally called the Military Division of the Mississippi, later the Military Division of the Missouri, which came to comprise the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! He took no precautions beyond strengthening his picket lines, and refused to entrench, build abatis, or push out reconnaissance patrols. [141] Upon reaching Savannah, Sherman appointed Private A. O. Granger as his personal secretary. [178] On January 12, Sherman and Stanton met in Savannah with twenty local black leaders, most of them Baptist or Methodist ministers, invited by Sherman. [164] Sherman proceeded with some of his troops to Washington, where they marched in the Grand Review of the Armies on May 24, 1865. According to critic Edmund Wilson, Sherman: [H]ad a trained gift of self-expression and was, as Mark Twain says, a master of narrative. Born in Ohio into a politically prominent family, Sherman graduated in 1840 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Father of Maria Ewing (Sherman) Fitch , Mary Elizabeth Sherman , William Tecumseh Sherman Jr , Thomas Ewing Sherman S.J. In January 1861, as more Southern states seceded from the Union, Sherman was required to accept receipt of arms surrendered to the Louisiana State Militia by the U.S. Arsenal at Baton Rouge. 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He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (18611865), achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched-earth policies that he implemented against the Confederate States. S > Sherman > William Tecumseh Sherman, Categories: Union Army Generals, United States Civil War | United States Military Academy | Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri | This Day In History February 08 | This Day In History February 14 | Namesakes US Counties | Example Profiles of the Week | United States of America, Notables | Notables | Union Army, United States Civil War, WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. [166][167][168] Before the war, Sherman expressed some sympathy with the view of Southern whites that the black race was benefiting from slavery, although he opposed breaking up slave families and advocated that laws forbidding the education of slaves be repealed. [9] He recovered and forged a close partnership with General Ulysses S. Grant. [112], After the surrender of Vicksburg and the re-capture of Jackson, Sherman was given the rank of brigadier general in the regular army, in addition to his rank as a major general of volunteers. [221], In this general connection, it is also noteworthy that Sherman and his subordinates (particularly John A. Logan) took steps to protect Raleigh, North Carolina, from acts of revenge after the assassination of President Lincoln.[222][223]. [183][184] Those orders, which became the basis of the claim that the Union government had promised freed slaves "forty acres and a mule", were revoked later that year by President Johnson. [263] However, Sherman did include the views of some others in the appendices to the new edition.[j][k]. Father William Tecumseh General Sherman. 8th cousin,16 times removed- thank you for helping me realize the connection. Sherman then became the military governor of occupied Memphis. One of his younger brothers, John Sherman, was one of the founders of the Republican Party and served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and cabinet secretary. [39] He also opened a general store in Coloma, which earned him $1,500 in 1849 while his army salary was only $70 a month. He taught with Sherman before the war at LSU, and Sherman later helped spring Boyd from a Union prison. For more detailed discussion of this overall period, see Marszalek. This letter was to James E. Yeatman, May 21, 1865, and is excerpted more extensively (and with slight variations) in Bowman and Irwin. Some of us called upon him immediately upon his arrival, and it is probable he would not meet the Secretary [Stanton] with more courtesy than he met us. in New York City, New York, USA, This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: William Tecumseh SHERMAN (1820), Copyright Wikipdia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. After Sherman's departure the spokesman for the black leaders, Baptist minister Garrison Frazier,[181][182] declared in response to Stanton's inquiry about the feelings of the black community: We looked upon General Sherman prior to his arrival as a man in the providence of God specially set apart to accomplish this work, and we unanimously feel inexpressible gratitude to him, looking upon him as a man that should be honored for the faithful performance of his duty. American Civil War, Mexican-American War, War of 1812, American soldier, businessman, educator and author, Born on February 08, 1820 Leave a message for others who see this profile. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. As such, he was responsible for the U.S. Army's engagement in the Indian Wars over the next 15 years, in the western United States. Sherman excelled academically at West Point, but he treated the demerit system with indifference. Yet in his personal attitudes, he was, by his own account, a racist and white supremacist. He returned to Washington in 1876, when the new Secretary of War, Alphonso Taft, promised him greater authority. 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