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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 3 : Missouri , Louisiana , and California . 1850 -1855 . (search)
Chapter 3: Missouri, Louisiana, and California. 1850-1855.
Having returned from California in January, 1850, with dispatches for the War Department, and having delivered them in person first to General Scott in New York City, and afterward to the Secretary of War (Crawford) in Washington City, I applied for and received a leave of absence for six months. I first visited my mother, then living at Mansfield, Ohio, and returned to Washington, where, on the 1st day of May, 1850, I was married to Miss Ellen Boyle Ewing, daughter of the Hon. Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Interior.
The marriage ceremony was attended by a large and distinguished company, embracing Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, T. H. Benton, President Taylor, and all his cabinet.
This occurred at the house of Mr. Ewing, the same now owned and occupied by Mr. F. P. Blair, senior, on Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite the War Department.
We made a wedding-tour to Baltimore, New York, Niagara, and Ohio, and returned to Washing