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James A. Garfield, who was representing the Ohio delegation, gave a major speech in support of Sherman, but soon found himself among those receiving delegate votes.
While trying to hold himself aloof from controversy, he observed firsthand the efforts of Congressman Frank Blair, who later served under Sherman, to hold Missouri in the Union.
" However, in May, he offered himself for service in the regular army, and his brother ( Senator John Sherman ) and other connections maneuvered to get him a commission in the regular army.
Sherman himself downplayed his role in conducting total war, often saying that he was simply carrying out orders as best he could in order to fulfill his part of Grant's master plan for ending the war.
" However, Sherman himself stated that " f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village ; but I did not do it ..." Sherman's official report on the burning placed the blame on Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton III, who Sherman said had ordered the burning of cotton in the streets.
Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History ( University of Missouri Press ; 2011 ) 208 pp ; Traces Sherman's shifting reputation as shaped by Lost Cause historians, enemies in the North, and Sherman himself.
At times, however, Winchester could align himself with Pierce and Hunnicutt and held considerable admiration for CO Col. Sherman T. Potter.
The donut shop holdup takes place several blocks east of the club, which is the donut shop on Sherman Way called Miss Donuts, which used to be a Winchell's Donuts ; the scene where Dirk Diggler prostitutes himself in a pickup truck was filmed in the Bank of America parking lot across the street from the donut shop.
Gorky hanged himself in Sherman, Connecticut, in 1948, at the age of 44.
Riley also said that the current line-up of Blackstreet comprised himself, Chauncey Hannibal, Dave Hollister and Sherman ' J-Stylz ' Tinsdale.
Andrew Keates is the youngest director to be granted the professional rights by Martin Sherman himself to direct the play.
In 1864, General Grant assigned himself as direct commander of Meade and the Army of the Potomac, and placed General William Sherman in command of the Western Theatre.
Close's wall-size tapestry portraits, in which each image is composed of thousands of combinations of woven colored thread, depict subjects including Kate Moss, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Lucas Samaras, Philip Glass, and Close himself.
Sherman also appeared as himself in one episode of Frasier.
* In The Simpsons, fifth Halloween Special ( Treehouse of Horror V ), in the Time and Punishment episode, Homer finds himself able to travel through time by means of a magic toaster and comes across Mister Peabody and Sherman.
For the brand's 2005 campaign, he photographed himself with Cindy Sherman.
The two most significant of these were by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac, accompanied by Grant himself, which would attack Robert E. Lee's army directly and advance toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia ; and Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, replacing Grant in his role as commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, who would advance from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Atlanta.
" At Vicksburg, after the envelopment, Grant used a strategy of the central position to defeat his opponent in detail, a Napoleon tactic well-known to Mahan's admirer and Grant's lieutenant WT Sherman, if not Grant himself.
Ironically, General Sherman himself came to despise " Marching Through Georgia ", in part because it was played at almost every public appearance that he attended.
Bart Simpson is watching the film The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons and after he criticizes the " cheap " crossover, Jay Sherman, the main character of the animated TV show The Critic, introduces himself to Bart.
After passing the bar, Sherman involved himself in Illinois politics.
After its defeat, Sherman delivered an address he called " a funeral oration over the defunct remains " of the treaty, and said it was one of the few times that he founf himself in agreement with Wilson.

Sherman and estimated
Sherman attributes the first attempt at doing this to Persily and Kronvall, who estimated annual average air exchange by:
With a height of, circumference at ground level of, and an estimated volume of, the Washington tree was widely regarded to be the second largest living single-stem tree in the world — only the nearby General Sherman tree was larger.

Sherman and campaign
The next day Sherman issued his orders ending the campaign and pulled his armies back to Atlanta.
Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.
Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.
When the Ohio off-year campaign of 1879 approached, Garfield turned his attention to securing the U. S. Senate seat for Ohio, vacated by John Sherman.
Taft / Sherman campaign poster
Sherman initially denied that he had endorsed the book, and had instead only signed a circular recommending that the book be used as a Republican campaign tool for the 1860 race.
Before the Vicksburg Campaign in the spring of 1863, Sherman expressed serious reservations about the wisdom of Grant's unorthodox strategy, but he went on to perform well in that campaign under Grant's supervision.
After the campaign, just before General Sherman began his operations against Atlanta, Sherman said of the Red River campaign that it was " One damn blunder from beginning to end.
The nominee had gone to the convention as manager of the campaign of his fellow Ohioan, Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman.
Hanna financed many of the arrangements for the Sherman campaign and was widely regarded as its manager.
In his general election campaign, Maddox equated the Callaway Republicans to the American Civil War and the 1864 March to the Sea waged in Georgia by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
He developed the strategy of coordinated simultaneous thrusts against wide portions of the Confederacy, most importantly the Georgia and Carolinas Campaigns of William Tecumseh Sherman and the Shenandoah Valley campaign of Philip Sheridan.
The campaign was designed by Grant and Sherman to be similar to Grant's innovative and successful Vicksburg Campaign, in that Sherman's armies would reduce their need for traditional supply lines by " living off the land " after consuming their 20 days of rations.
Since the army would be out of touch with the North throughout the campaign, Sherman gave explicit orders, Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 120, regarding the conduct of the campaign.
Sherman, commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi, did not employ his entire army group in the campaign.
After a successful two-month campaign, Sherman accepted the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston and his forces in North Carolina on April 26, 1865.
Despite entering the race long after his primary opponent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Westly's campaign picked up considerable momentum, receiving endorsements from such figures as Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, Congressmembers Grace Napolitano, Diane Watson, and Brad Sherman, State Senators Carole Migden, Martha Escutia, and Nell Soto, County Supervisor Yvonne Burke, Assembly Members Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Rudy Bermudez, and Nicole Parra, former Assembly Speaker and current Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, the majority of the Los Angeles City Council, and other elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.
" More poetically, in 1867, apparently speaking of the Atlanta campaign, General Sherman said that the Army of the Tennessee was " never checked — always victorious ; so rapid in motion — so eager to strike ; it deserved its name of the ' Whip-lash ,' swung from one flank to the other, as danger called, night or day, sunshine or storm.
The Special Field Orders issued by Sherman were never intended to represent an official policy of the United States government with regards to all former slaves and were issued " throughout the campaign to assure the harmony of action in the area of operations.
Forced by the logic of the situation to switch alliances rather than risk being cast into political oblivion, Daugherty abandoned his political friend in the final contest of the Ohio Republican caucus on January 2, 1892, joining 52 others in voting for Sherman, against 38 for the insurgent campaign of Foraker.

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