General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Thirty-eighth Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis, Missouri.

SHERMAN, Philemon Tecumseh [William Tecumseh Sherman].

$450.00

Item Number: 145970

New York: Robert Grier Cooke, 1908.

First edition of this biographical address of the author’s father, delivered at the Thirty-eighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Octavo, original wrappers. Author’s card tipped in, “With the Compliments of the Author 15 William Street, New York City.” In near fine condition with a few small losses to the extremities of the wrappers. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

William Tecumseh Sherman served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies that he implemented against the Confederate States. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the Western Theater. He led the capture of the strategic city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in April 1865 and succeeded Ulysses S. Grant as Commanding General of the Army when Grant was elected President.