Curious. Meagher does not appear in the index of the McDonough bio.
Too minor a figure in the trajectory of Sherman’s career, perhaps. They crossed paths early in the Civil War, when the Union army was just getting going, and at the end of Meagher’s life, when he was territorial governor of Montana.
For fellow refugees from the WWII by day threads, I ran across a website with some interesting maps, a few of which I hadn’t seen. It’s the 40,000 feet view of the War. http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7148855/40-maps-that-explain-world-war-ii