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Sherman, Thomas West

soldier, was born March 26, 1813, in Newport, R. I.

He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died March 16, 1879, in Newport, R. I.

SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH, soldier, author, was born Feb. 8, 1820, in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed a colonel of infantry in the United States army and commanded a brigade at Bull Run. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and had command of the Kentucky department. He was made major-general; and in 1864 made one of the most famous military marches of modern times, going from Atlanta to Savannah, with sixty thousand men, which great enterprise soon brought the war to a conclusion. He was made brigadier-general in the United States army in 1863, major-general in 1864, lieutenantgeneral in 1866, and general-in-chief of the army in 1869. In 1869 he was appointed secretary of war. A Memoir of His Life and Campaign has been published; and also his The Military Lessons of the War. He died in 1891.