page_title: William Tecumseh Sherman
section_title: Religious views
hierarchical_section_title: William Tecumseh Sherman / Religious views
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: lifedeedsofgener02nort (find matches) Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: her general. All readers are interested in personal anecdotes andreminiscences concerning great men. In the long lifeand checkered career of General Sherman many inci-dents occurred, and account of which the public isanxious to obtain. Stories of camp-life, long marcheshardships of the campaign, and anecdotes concerningGeneral Shermans private life and intercourse withhis old comrades enliven the pages of this volume.Side by side stand with him other brilliant heroes inthe nations struggle, and a picture of him as a manamong men is presented. The demonstration of sympathy and sorrow whenhis death occurred has scarcely been paralleled in thiscountry. Sherman was loved by everybody, as wellas admired. His death struck home to the heart ofthe nation. All classes of citizens, including thePresident, members of the Cabinet, army and navalofficers, merchants, farmers, professional men, therich, the poor, vied with each other at his funeral *.ntelling of his glory and in honoring his memory. Text Appearing After Image: CONTENTS. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. J^ Rkmarkabi^e Famii^y.—The Ii,i,ustrious Commandsr»sBari^y Life and Struggi.es.—Born to be a Hero . . 17 CHAPTER II. Education at West Point.—Chasing Savage Seminoi^ES inTHE South ... 25 CHAPTER III.A Recruiting Officer.—Stirring Times in Cai^ifornia . 32 CHAPTER IV Shermans Romantic Marriage.—Banker in CawforniaAND New York.—Become a Lawyer 40 CHAPTER V. Prophet and Patriot.—Advice to the War DepartmentTHEATED AS A Proof of Insanity 50 CHAPTER VI. Army of the Tennessee.—Sherman Co-operates withGrant.—Forward Movements 65 CHAPTER VII. From Ati,anta to the Sea.—^Thrii,i.ing Story of One ofTHE Greatest Feats in Military History ... 78 vii Vlll CONTENTS.* CHAPTER VIII. Important Letter of Generai. Sherman.—The CountryDeIvUded in the Eari,y Part of the War.—Strange.Charge op Lunacy 95 CHAPTER IX.After the War.—Not a Candidate for the Presidency.—Sketch of the Hero.—Life in New York . . .113 CHAPTER X.Reminiscences of the Renownelifedeedsofgener02nort Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: 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, receiving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. British military theorist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was "the first modern general."
  Born in Ohio to a politically prominent family, Sherman graduated in 1840 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He interrupted his military career in 1853 to pursue private business ventures, and at the outbreak of the Civil War he was superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. Sherman distinguished himself at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, before being transferred to the Western Theater. Stationed in Kentucky, his pessimism about the outlook of the war led to a nervous breakdown that required him to be briefly put on leave. He recovered by forging a close partnership with General Ulysses S. Grant.
context_section_description: Sherman's birth family was Presbyterian and he was originally baptized as such.  His foster family, including his future wife Ellen, were devout Catholics, and Sherman was re-baptized and later married in the Catholic rite.  According to his son Thomas, who became a Catholic priest, Sherman attended the Catholic Church until the outbreak of the Civil War, but not thereafter. In 1888, Sherman wrote publicly that "my immediate family are strongly Catholic. I am not and cannot be." A memoirist reports that Sherman told him in 1887 that "my family is strongly Roman Catholic, but I am not." Sherman wrote his wife Ellen Ewing in 1842 that "I believe in good works rather than faith.”
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