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Eleanor Boyle Ewing Sherman, portrait by G.P.A. Healy (1868) Eleanor Boyle Ewing Sherman (October 4, 1824 – November 28, 1888) was the wife of General William Tecumseh Sherman, a leading Union general in the American Civil War. She was also a prominent figure of the times in her own right.
William Tecumseh Sherman (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə / tih-KUM-sə; [4] [5] February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), earning recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of his scorched earth policies, which he ...
Eleanor Sherman Thackara. Eleanor Mary Sherman Thackara (1859–1915), is most known as the daughter of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of American Civil War fame and his wife, Ellen Ewing Sherman. Married to a diplomat, she spent a good deal of her time in Europe.
Tecumseh (/ tɪˈkʌmsə, - si / tih-KUM-sə, -see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity.
Elmwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio. Spouse. Mary Hoyt. Children. Charles Taylor Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, John Sherman, Hoyt Sherman, seven others. Charles Robert Sherman (c. September 26, 1788 – June 24, 1829) was an American lawyer and public servant. Of his 11 children, four became prominent public figures during and after the ...
Tecumseh, the fifth child of the family, was born around 1768. In 1775, not long after Puckshinwa had been killed in the Battle of Point Pleasant, Methotaske gave birth to triplets. One of the three died at birth. Of the two boys who survived, one was Kumskaukau ("A Cat That Flies in the Air"), who grew to be a well-liked man with many friends ...
Thomas Ewing Sherman. Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, 1914. Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. (October 12, 1856 – April 29, 1933) was an American lawyer, educator, and Catholic priest. He was the fourth child and second son of Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.
Sherman at age 19. Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio on May 10 1823, to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. [1] John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. [2]