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A sketch of Sherman.
--The following sketch of William Tecumseh Sherman, who is at present attracting something of the public attention, we find in the Baltimore American:
Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman is the full name of the hero who has marched upon Savannah.
He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1820; his father, Honorable Charles R. Sherman, one of the Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court, and eider brother of Senator Sherman.
He was educated in the family of the Honorable Thomas Ewing, the distinguished lawyer, whose daughter he married, becoming brother-in-law to the now General Thomas Ewing.
At sixteen he entered, and in 1840 graduated from.
West Point. In 1841 be was stationed at Fort Moultrie, Charleston; in 1818 he took charge of the banking-house of Lucas, Turner & Co., San Francisco, and in 1860 was President of the State Military Academy of Louisiana--a post which he resigned on the first indication of secession.
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