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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1 : early recollections of California . 1846 -1848 . (search)
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2 : early recollections of California --(continued). 1849 -1850 . (search)
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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 in a few days.
I met him afterward often in California, and always esteemed him one of the best sam , New Mexico, where he had just arrived from California.
In going from Independence to Fort Leave for reflection, and went on to New York and California.
Shortly after arrived James T. Lucas, Es xplained the full programme of the branch in California; that my name had been included at the insta osed to me that, in establishing a branch in California, he was influenced by the apparent prosperit a small steamer for Nicaragua, en route for California.
We embarked early in March, and in seven d house, and at the same time pay expenses in California, with a reasonable profit.
Of course, Turner never designed to remain long in California, and I consented to go back to St. Louis, confer with our deposit account.
This latter account in California was decidedly uncertain.
The balance due de
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 4 : California . 1855 -1857 . (search)
Chapter 4: California. 1855-1857.
During the winter of 1854-55, I received frequent intimation t & Gebhard, bankers in Nassau Street.
In California the house of Page, Bacon & Co. was composed r, from our partners in St. Louis, nobody in California doubted their wealth and stability.
They mu d separate concerns, that every draft of the California house had been paid in New York, and would c lf.
William Neely Johnson was Governor of California, and resided at Sacramento City; General Joh d took the oath.
In 1851 (when I was not in California) there had been a Vigilance Committee, and i
Johnson argued that the time had passed in California for mobs and vigilance committees, and said terward had any thing to do with politics in California, perfectly satisfied with that short experie n capital, also, which had been attracted to California by reason of the high rates of interest, was d induced Mr. Lucas to establish the bank in California had ceased.
I so reported to him, and that
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 5 : California , New York, and Kansas . 1857 -1859 . (search)
Chapter 5: California, New York, and Kansas. 1857-1859.
Having closed the bank at San Francisco on the 1st day of May, 1857, accompanied by my family I embarked in the steamer Sonora for Panama, crossed the isthmus, and sailed to New York, when ifferent.
We opened our office on the 21st of July, 1857, and at once began to receive accounts from the West and from California, but our chief business was as the resident agents of the St. Louis firm of James H. Lucas & Co. Personally I took room B. R. Nisbet was still in San Francisco, but had married a Miss Thornton, and was coming home.
There still remained in California a good deal of real estate, and notes, valued at about two hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate; so that, at Mr. L atter, and would doubtless befriend me on account of the relations that had existed between General Mason and myself in California.
Accordingly, I addressed a letter of application to the Hon. R. C. Wickliffe, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, asking the answ
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 6 : Louisiana . 1859 -1861 . (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 7 : Missouri . April and May , 1861 . (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 8 : from the battle of Bull Run to Paducah --Kentucky and Missouri . 1861 -1862 . (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 20 (search)