Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 to Henry W. Slocum

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Four letters + one photograph

GLC#
GLC08113
Type
Header Record
Date
1889
Author/Creator
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Title
to Henry W. Slocum
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
Four letters + one photograph
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age
Union General

Showing 4 of 4 records

Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Mrs. Henry Slocum

February 9, 1889

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Thanking her for flowers sent on his 69th birthday: "If I can worry through another year...time with his scythe... may make a deep swath, but cannot cheat me of seventy years on this insignificant globe with a fair measure of life's pleasures and...

GLC08113.01
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry W. Slocum

February 11, 1889

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

"We three will go down to history as the leaders of 'The March to the Sea'."
Requesting photos of Slocum and Howard

GLC08113.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Mrs. Henry Slocum

21 May 1889

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Declining invitation to her daughter's wedding

GLC08113.03
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry W. Slocum

01 March 1889

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

Enclosing requested photograph (with photo). "Though the main honor of the work crowns our chief, yet in helpful planning & executing, our part will not be forgotten."

GLC08113.04