[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from August 19 (reply #84)

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 14 (reply 15).

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

[PAR35]

1856...only time that he ever cast a ballot in a presidential election....

At the time of the 1860 election, Sherman was serving as head of what is now known as Louisiana State University (located at the time in Pineville, LA, across the Red River from Alexandria.)

[henkster]

Rather surprised both Sherman and Grant voted Buchanan. It is revealing in Sherman’s case that he voted Buchanan because he knew Fremont. Much of what Sherman said about Fremont seems to have panned out when Fremont became Viceroy of Missouri during the Civil War.