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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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nditions than Math Northern. He spent someof his leisure time in the study of his profession and finallyattacked the study of law. jNIost of the next ten years was spent in California, wherehe was sent, in 1846, at the outbreak of the INIexican War. Asaide to Generals S. W. Kearny, Mason, and Smith, in turn,Sherman was busy for four j-ears in assisting to untangle theproblems of the American occupation. In 1850, he returned to Ohio and was married to SenatorEwings daughter, Ellen Boyle Ewing, a woman of strongcharacter and fine intellect, who for thirtj-six j^ears was tohim a genuine helpmeet. About the same time, he was madecaptain in the Commissary Department and served for a shorttime in St. Louis and New Orleans, resigning earlj in 1853that he might return to California to take charge of a bankingestablishment, a branch house of Lucas, Turner and Company,of St. Louis. During this second period of life in California, we seeSherman as a business man—a banker. He was cautious and ^
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■EVieW OF WEVIEWS CO. SHERISIAN IN 1865If Sherman was deemed merciless in war, he was superbly generous w hen the fightingwas o\cr. To Joseph E. Johnston he offered most liberal terms of surrender foi theSouthern armies. Their acceptance would have gone far to prevent the worst of thereconstruction enormities. Unfortunately his first convention with Johnston wasdisapproved. The death of Lincoln had removed the guiding hand that would havemeant .so much to the nation. To those who have read his published correspondenceand his memoirs Sherman appears in a very human light. He was fluent and fre-quently reckless in speech and writing, but his kindly humanity is seen in both.

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