[282] In 1888, Sherman wrote publicly that "my immediate family are strongly Catholic. [114][115], Ordered to relieve the Union forces besieged in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sherman departed from Memphis on October 11, 1863, aboard a train bound for Chattanooga. He was stationed in Kentucky, where his pessimism about the outlook of the war led to a breakdown that required him to be briefly put on leave. [99] According to historian John D. Winters's The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), at this stage Sherman, had yet to display any marked talents for leadership. When Sherman was nine years old his father, a successful lawyer on the Ohio Supreme court, unexpectedly died in 1829. William Tecumseh Sherman | Biography & Facts | Britannica His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a lawyer who was a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court,[11] died unexpectedly of typhoid fever in 1829. Louis. [26], Upon graduation in 1840, Sherman entered the army as a second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Add a caption. The Death of Willie Sherman - The New York Times - Opinionator He was the sixth of eleven children born to Judge Charles and Mary Hoyt Sherman. "[272] He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. [263] However, Sherman did include the views of some others in the appendices to the new edition.[j][k]. In October 1876, Grant, after issuing a proclamation, instructed Sherman to gather all available Atlantic region troops and dispatch them to South Carolina to stop the mob violence. [9] He recovered and forged a close partnership with General Ulysses S. Grant. A bill was introduced in Congress to promote Sherman to Grant's rank of lieutenant general, probably with a view towards having him replace Grant as commander of the Union Army. As Sherman himself once noted, his unusual middle name came from his father's "fancy for the great chief of the Shawnees, Tecumseh," who headed a confederacy of Native American tribes in Ohio. . Family tree of William Tecumseh SHERMAN - Geneastar [l], The gilded bronze Sherman Memorial (1902) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens stands at the Grand Army Plaza near the main entrance to New York City's Central Park.