[104][105] Arkansas Post was taken by the Union army and navy on January 11, 1863. Ellen's father, Thomas Ewing, was the US Secretary of the Interior at that time. [275], Sherman wrote to his wife in 1842: "I believe in good works rather than faith. The resulting trial of Satanta and Big Tree marked the first occasion in which Native American chiefs were tried by a civilian court in the United States. Sherman's . He was the sixth of eleven children born to Judge Charles and Mary Hoyt Sherman. [146], While in Savannah, Sherman learned from a newspaper that his infant son Charles Celestine had died during the Savannah campaign; the general had never seen the child. In fact, Sherman's first command was a brigade of three-month volunteers who fought in the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861. [34] In June 1848, Sherman accompanied the military governor of California, Col. Richard Barnes Mason, to inspect the gold mines at Sutter's Fort. . [200], Like Grant and Lincoln, Sherman was convinced that the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological ability to wage further war needed to be crushed if the fighting were to end. The Unwilling Catholic: General William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman observed but did not join in the religious ceremonies of the Ewing household. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) FamilySearch Sherman commanded the division on the extreme right of the Union's right wing (under George Henry Thomas). Sherman was fond of the Ewings' eldest daughter, Ellen, and frequently corresponded with her while at West Point. When William Tecumseh Sherman was born on 12 December 1828, in Columbia, New York, United States, his father, Roger Stevens Sherman, was 32 and his mother, Orilla Moses, was 34. 1869-1934) Susan Denman Sherman (b. Oct. 10, 1825-Jan. 10, 1876) Married: second wife of Thomas Wells Bartley, Nov. 7, 1848 [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]. His father, a lawyer and jurist, died when he was nine, leaving the family destitute. He was particularly interested in targeting South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union, because of the effect that it would have on Southern morale. Lincoln happened to be at City Point at the same time, making possible the only three-way meeting of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman during the war. [130][d], Sherman's Atlanta campaign concluded successfully on September 2, 1864, with the capture of the city, which Hood had been forced to abandon. [c] He became exceedingly pessimistic about the outlook for his command and he complained frequently to Washington about shortages, while providing exaggerated estimates of the strength of the rebel forces and requesting inordinate numbers of reinforcements. [207], The damage done by Sherman's marches through Georgia and the Carolinas was almost entirely limited to the destruction of property. At Shiloh, he may have wished to avoid appearing overly alarmed in order to escape the kind of criticism he had received in Kentucky. In 1829, when Sherman was 9, his father died unexpectedly. As the foster son of a prominent Whig politician, in Charleston the popular Lieutenant Sherman moved within the upper circles of Old South society. Sherman House Museum in Lancaster, Ohio, is the birthplace of General William Tecumseh Sherman, his younger brother U.S. At the insistence of Johnston, Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Confederate Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge, Sherman conditionally agreed to generous terms that dealt with both military and political issues. . Select a photo type. Born William Tecumseh SHERMAN. [175] According to Sherman, My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. [132] The capture of Atlanta made Sherman a household name and was decisive in ensuring Lincoln's re-election in November. [142] Sherman then dispatched a message to Lincoln, offering him the city as a Christmas present.[143][e]. In Louisiana, he became a close friend of professor David French Boyd, a native of Virginia and an enthusiastic secessionist. 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. "[284][285], "Since the public mind has settled to the conclusion that the institution of slavery was so interwoven in our system that nothing but the interposition of Providence and horrid war could have eradicated it, and now that it is in the distant past, and that we as a nation, North and South, East and West, are the better for it, we believe that the war was worth to us all it cost in life and treasure." Thousands of refugees, both black and white, joined Sherman's columns, which on February 20 finally withdrew towards Canton.
