[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

I hope your holiday was Merry.

Back then naming your son after an Indian chief took cajones. Kinda like naming your boy, “Sue.”

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thank you. My Christmas was sufficiently merry and sufficiently restful also. I trust yours was the same.

According to the biography I have been excerpting, Sherman's father "deeply admired the Shawnee warrior." Considering Sherman's later experience during the Seminole wars the name is ironic. Sherman was called Tecumseh, or Cump, by his family. William was a baptismal name that was apparently seldom used.