Sherman
Sherman names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sherman WILLIAM TECUMSEH, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM TECUMSEH, an American military officer; born in Lancaster, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1820. His father, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died in 1829, and William was educated in the family of Thomas Ewing till he had reached the age of 16, when he went to the United States Military ; was graduated there in 1840, ; Academy A entered the army, and was promoted to 1st lieutenant in 1841. He acted as assistant adjutant-general in 1847, and obtained a brevet of captain, May, 1848, for meritorious services in California during the war with Mexico. He was appointed commissary of subsistence in 1850, served at St. Louis and New Orleans, but finding his pay inadequate to support his family, resigned his commission Sept. 6, 1853, and removed to San Francisco, where he engaged in the banking business till 1858, when he went to Leavenworth, Kan., leaving there in July, 1859, on being elected superintendent of the Louisiana State Military Institute, which position he resigned when the Civil War began. After the fall of Fort Sumter he was commissioned colonel of the 13th United States Infantry, and commanded the 3d Brigade at the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. On the reorganization of the WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN National army he was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers, accompanied General Anderson to Kentucky, succeeded him temporarily in command till at his own request he was relieved by General Buell and was ordered to Missouri. In the early part of 1862 he was appointed to the command of a division under General Grant, and acted with great bravery at the battle of Shiloh, April 63 was promoted to major-general, May 1; and when the Department of Tennessee was formed, in December, was made commander of the 15th Army Corps. At the end of that month he led an expedition to Vicksburg; but the works were too strong to be taken by assault, and he was obliged to withdraw his troops after a severe fight. He commanded the wing of the army that captured Fort Hindman, Ark., Jan. 10, 1863, after which he resumed command of the 15th Army Corps; took part in the siege of Vicksburg, which capitulated July 3, 1863; and led the expedition which captured Jackson City, July 10. When General Grant was placed in command of the army previously under General Rosecrans, he gave the command of the Department of the Tennessee to General Sherman, who encountered General Longstreet, and obliged him to retreat, Nov. 20; and in February, 1864, made his expedition to Meridian, Miss., and broke up that important railroad center, driving General Polk's army out of Mississippi. Having been charged with the command of the army in Georgia, May 4, he commenced the expedition through that State which ended in the capture of Atlanta, the capital city. General Hood thrice attacked the Federal army and was repulsed, sustaining considerable loss. After his third failure General Hood acted merely on the defensive in Atlanta, which fell into the hands of the Nationals in the beginning of September. In October Hood began his movement toward Tennessee. Sherman followed him as far as Resaca, 75 miles, drove him from the railroad, and then sent part of his army to Tennessee to defend that State, and with the balance began his "march to the sea," to act in concert with the Union army in Virginia against Lee. The distance from Atlanta to Savannah is 290 miles. General Sherman accomplished the march with very little loss in 23 days; and Savannah fell into his hands Dec. 21, 1864. The news of its capture was received with great rejoicing in the North, not only because it showed how triumphant the campaign in Georgia had been, but because it opened up the seaboard of that State and inflicted a heavy blow on the Confederate cause. General Sherman defeated the Confederates at Bentonville, N. C., March 19, 1865, and soon afterward paid a visit to General Grant, to concert those measures for the defeat of General Lee which ended in the submission of that general and that of Gen. J. E. Johnston, who surrendered his army to General Sherman, April 26, 1865, which was one of the closing actions of the war. General Sherman was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, July 25, 1866; succeeded General Grant as general, March 4, 1869; was retired Feb. 8, 1884, and died in New York City, Feb. 14, 1891.
Sherman JOHN, American an statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, American an statesman; born in Lancaster, O., May 10, 1823; brother of Gen. William T. Sherman; was admitted to the bar in 1844; served as a delegate to the National Whig conventions of 1848 and 1852; and was a member of Congress in 1855-1861. He took a prominent part in the proceedings of the House; was on the Committee of Inquiry sent to Kansas; and joined the movement for the formation of the Republican party. In 1861-1877 he was in the Senate and there was prominently identified with the support of all measures for the prosecution of the Civil War; defended the protective tariff, the restoration of specie payments, and the refunding of the National debt. He was a member of the committee that visited Louisiana to supervise the counting of the returns of that State, and a member of JOHN SHERMAN the Electoral Commission. He was Secretary of the Treasury in 1877-1881, and superintended the resumption of specie payments in 1879, after a suspension of while he was still a young man. In 1884-17 years. He was re-elected to the Senate, in 1881 and continued to hold that office till 1897, when he was appointed Secretary of State by President McKinley. He resigned that office, however, in 1898, on account of failing health. In 1885 he was president of the Senate pro tem., but declined re-election at the end of the 49th Congress. He was a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1884 and 1888. Among his publications are: "Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and ; and "Recollections of Taxation" on" (1879) Forty Years in the House, Senate, and (1893). He died in Washington, Cabinet" D. C., Oct. 22, 1900. See SHERMAN ACT.
Sherman THOMAS WEST, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS WEST, an American military officer; born in Newport, R. I., March 26, 1813; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1836 and assigned to duty with the 3d Artillery. He served in the Florida and Mexican Wars, and for his services in the latter was brevetted major, Feb. 23, 1847. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was placed in command of a battery of United States artillery and later was made chief of light artillery in the defense of Washington, D. C. He organized an expedition for the capture of Bull's Bay, S. C., and Fernandina, Fla., for the use of the blockading fleet on the southern coast; commanded the land forces of the Port Royal expedition in 1861-1862; led a division in the Department of the Gulf in 1862-1863, and participated in the siege of Corinth. While leading a column in the assault on Port Hudson, La., on May 27, 1863, he lost his right leg, in consequence of which he was on leave of absence till February, 1864. On his return to duty he was placed in command of a reserve brig rigade of artillery in the Department of the Gulf, and later took charge of the defenses of New Orleans and the Southern and Eastern Districts of Louisiana. On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted majorgeneral of volunteers and major-general, U. S. A., for gallant services during the After the war he commanded at war. Fort Adams, R. I., and at Key West, Fla. He was retired as full major-general, U. S. A., on Dec. 31, 1870; and died in Newport, R. I., March 16, 1879.
Sherman ROGER, an statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROGER, an statesman; born in Newton, Mass., April 19, 1721; was early apprenticed to a shoemaker, and continued in that trade till 1743, when he removed to New Milford, Conn., and engaged in mercantile business with his brother. In 1745 he was appointed surveyor for his county, and not long afterward furnished the astronomical observations for an almanac published in New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1754; was several times elected to the Colonial Assembly; and in 1759 became judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Having removed to New Haven, Conn., in 1761, he became judge of the Common Pleas there in 1765, and a member of the upper house of the Legislature. He was a member of the Continental and National Congress in 1774-1791; one of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, of which he was a signer; and in 1787, in conjunction with Dr. Samuel Johnson and Oliver Ellsworth, served as a delegate to the convention charged with the duty of framing the Federal Constitution. He died in New Haven, Conn., July 23, 1793.
Sherman JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, an American public official, and vice-president of the United States, born at Utica, N. Y., in 1855. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1878, and after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1880. For several years he practiced his profession in Utica. He was early interested in politics and was elected chairman of the Oneida Republican County Committee 1885, he was mayor of Utica, and from 1887 to 1891, and again from 1893 to 1909, he was a member of Congress. He served as chairman of the Republican State conventions in 1895, 1900, and 1908, and chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee in 1906. He was nominated vice-president on the ticket of William H. Taft, and was elected in 1908. He died in 1912.
Sherman LAWRENCE YATES, a United States Senator from Illinois
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LAWRENCE YATES, a United States Senator from Illinois, born in Miami co., Ohio, in 1858. In the following year his parents removed to Illinois. He was educated in the common schools and studied law at McKendree College. He practiced law in Chicago and from 1886 to 1890 was county judge of McDonough County. From 1897 to 1899 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1900. He was lieutenant-governor of the LAWRENCE YATES SHERMAN State from 1904 to 1908, and in 1909 was elected United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of William Lorimer. He was re-elected in 1914 but declined to stand for re-election in 1920. American
Sherman a city and county-seat of Grayson co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Grayson co., Tex.; on the Texas and Pacific, the Houston and Texas Central, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads; 64 miles N. of Dallas. It contains Austin College (Pres.), North Texas Female College (M. E.), Carr-Carlton Christian College for Women, public library, Y. M. C. A. Building, Federal buildings, waterworks, electric lights, National and other banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. (It has cotton gins, a cotton-seed oil mill, machine shops, foundries, flour mills, planing mills, carriage and wagon factories, marble and brick works, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,412; (1920) 15,031.
Sherman FRANK DEMPSTER, an American poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK DEMPSTER, an American poet; born in Peekskill, N. Y., May 6, 1860. Educated at Columbia College and Harvard University, he became adjunct professor in the Columbia School of Architecture. He published: "Madrigals and Catches"; "Lyrics for a Lute"; and, with John Kendrick Bangs, "New Waggings of Old Tales"; "Little Folk Lyrics"; "Lyrics of Joy" (1904); "A Southern Flight" (with Clinton Scollard, 1906); and "Complete Poems" (1918). He died in 1916.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 closed its account of William Tecumseh Sherman with his death in New York in 1891, and treated the march from Atlanta to Savannah simply as a triumph received with great rejoicing in the North; since then his burning of Georgia and South Carolina has become the standard case study in the argument over total war against civilians, and his name was attached in 1942 to the M4 Sherman, the mass-produced tank that became the most numerous American armoured vehicle of the Second World War. His brother John Sherman is remembered by Collier's for the protective tariff and for superintending the resumption of specie payments in 1879, but what has actually carried his name forward is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which the encyclopedia does not dwell on and which remains the foundation of United States competition law, invoked to break up the Bell telephone system in 1982 and against Microsoft in the 1990s. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of the same year, by contrast, was repealed in 1893 and is now of interest only to historians of the money question. The remaining entries on this page are the sort that time has quietly sorted: those attached to living institutions and statutes are still looked up, while the purely local and personal ones have faded to genealogical interest.
Written for this edition, 2026.