20 linear feet.
15 reels of microfilm.
2 linear feet of photographs.
11 linear feet of printed material.
Folder list with index; also Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers, 1808-1891 (University of Notre Dame Archives, 1967).
The sixth of the eleven children of Charles Robert and Mary Hoyt Sherman, upon the death of his father in 1829 he went to live with the Thomas Ewings, a prominent Ohio family. In 1850 Sherman married one of the Ewing daughters, Ellen. They had eight children: Maria Ewing Sherman Fitch, Mary Elizabeth Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jr., Thomas Ewing Sherman, Eleanor Mary Sherman Thackara, Rachel Ewing Sherman Thorndike, Charles Celestine Sherman, and Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman, a West Point graduate and Army captain at the time of his marriage to Ellen, resigned his commission in 1853; before his re-entry into the service in 1861, he served as a banker in California, a lawyer in Ohio, a superintendent of a military academy in Louisiana (forerunner of Louisiana State University), and president of a street railway in St. Louis. His success during the Civil War led eventually to his command of the army in 1869, a position he held until his retirement in 1883.
Correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, drafts and copies of articles, speeches and military orders, and explanatory notes; originals, photostats, microfilm, typewritten copies and handwritten copies; also artifacts, books from the Sherman family library, and photographs, including many by George Barnard taken during the Civil War.
Available on microfilm for purchase from the Archives of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556. Microfilm edition, sponsored by the National Historical Publications Commission, was completed in 1967, together with a guide to the edition. Most of the original material in the collection dating 1808-1891 was filmed.
Miss Eleanor Sherman Fitch made gifts of portions of the papers (that both she and her uncle Philemon T. Sherman had collected) from 1941 until the time of her death, 1959, when the remainder of the material was bequeathed to the university.
We also have microfilm of Sherman papers at the Library of Congress (51 reels) and at other repositories (6 reels).
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