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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman , John 1823 -1896 (search)
Sherman, John 1823-1896
Statesman; born in Lancaster, O., May 10, 1823; brother of Gen. William T. Sherman; was admitted to the bar in 1844; elected to Congress in 1854, and served there until 1861, when he became United States Senator.
He was a leading member of the finance committee of the Senate during the Civil War. He and Thaddeus Stevens were the framers of the bill passed in 1866-67 for the reorganization of the so-called seceded States.
He was also the author of a bill providing for the resumption of specie payments on Jan. 1, 1879; and on March 4, 1877, President Hayes called him to his cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
In 1881 he was re-elected to the United States Senate; became chairman of the committee on foreign relations; resigned
John Sherman. in 1897 to become Secretary of State; and retired from that office in April, 1898.
He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 22, 1900. Mr. Sherman published Recollections (2 volumes, 1896).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman , William Tecumseh 1820 -1829 (search)
Sherman, William Tecumseh 1820-1829
Military officer; born in Mansfield, O., Feb. 8, 1820; gra State passed the ordinance of secession, Captain Sherman resigned; was made colonel of United Stat t urgently recommend the promotion of Maj.-Gen. W. T. Sherman, now commanding the 15th Army Corps, e South, with instructions to co-operate with Sherman's inland movements by occupying, in succession, Charleston and other places.
Sherman notified General Grant that it was his intention, after le Charleston kept Hardee from interfering with Sherman's inland march.
Wheeler had been putting obs Confederates, who could not determine whether Sherman's objective was Charleston or Augusta.
His invasion produced wide-spread alarm.
Sherman's army steadily advanced in the face of every obstac ederates before them wherever they appeared.
Sherman's march was so rapid that troops for the defe ith the National troops at Wilmington.
General Sherman was promoted major general, United States
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Sherman silver act,
Passed July 17, 1890.
See silver legislation.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slocum , Henry Warner 1827 -1894 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith , John Eugene 1816 -1897 (search)
Smith, John Eugene 1816-1897
Military officer; born in Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 3, 1816; removed to Philadelphia, where he was educated; then settled in Illinois; was aide-de-camp to Governor Yates when the Civil War began; became colonel of the 45th Illinois Volunteers in July, 1861, and served well at Forts Henry and Donelson, and in the battles of Shiloh and Corinth.
In November he was made brigadier-general of volunteers; in 1862 he commanded a division in the 16th Army Corps, and was in all the operations against Vicksburg in 1863.
He was afterwards in the battles near Chattanooga, and in 1864 was in the Atlanta campaign under Sherman, also in his subsequent campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas to the surrender of Johnston.
He was brevetted major-general, in 1867, and retired in 1881.
He died in Chicago, Ill.. Jan. 29, 1897.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith , Morgan Lewis 1822 -1874 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Terry , Alfred Howe 1827 -1890 (search)
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