President Hayes; Gen. O. O. Howard; Talmage, T. De Witt; et al. Life and Reminiscences of General Wm. T. Sherman, by Distinguished Men of His Time. Illustrated. Baltimore: R. H. Woodward Company, 1891. [12024]
Brown cloth decorated in gilt & black, a bit scuffed, frayed at the corner tips and spine ends, 8 x 5 3/4 inches, tight. Green ivy pattern end papers, b/w photogravure portrait of Sherman with tissue guard as frontispiece. 15 additional b/w plates. xvi, 479 clean pp. Good. Hardcover.
The "Distinguished Men" who contribute to this volume are Ex-President Hayes, Gen. O. O. Howard, Hon Geo. W. Childs, Gen. Henry Slocum, Gen. Horatio C. King, Senator Manderson, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Admiral Porter, General Horace Porter, Senator Hawley, Hon. Thomas C. Fletcher, and Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D.
"History will carry to coming generations the evidences of the military genius of General Sherman and the far-reaching and great breadth of his mind. His marches and battles and triumphs and speeches and letters will do all this, but that is not all that should be preserved to carry into coming time a knowledge of what manner of man this patriot, hero, brainy American was. I write of him of my personal knowledge." - Introduction, by Thos. C. Fletcher.
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), b. Lancaster, Ohio; d. New York City. The unrelenting and sometimes ruthless Union Civil War general who worked closely with Grant to defeat the Southern Confederacy.
