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Sherman

noun

United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891). Synonym: William Tecumseh Sherman.

American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793). Synonym: Roger Sherman.

A peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high). Synonym: Mount Sherman.

A town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border.

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"Sherman" Quotes from Famous Books

... trade occupied a very large number of workers and has given a good many surnames. The Shearer was distinct from the Shearman or Sherman, the former operating on the sheep and the latter on the nap of the cloth. For Comber we also have the older Kempster, and probably Kimber, from the Mid. Eng. kemben, to comb, which survives in "unkempt". The Walker, ...

— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley

... Mr Sherman was so obliging as to give me the perusal of your Letter to him, and I am happy that Congress as a Body concurs with you in the Sentiment therein containd; having passd a Resolution by a great Majority expressing their Sense that true Religion & good Morals are the only solid Foundations ...

— The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4 • Samuel Adams

... arch were three heroic figures. Lee on the one side, Grant on the other, with Fame in the center, holding out a laurel wreath with either hand to both Grant and Lee. Among the figures clustered around and below that of Grant, were those of Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas and Hancock, and among those around and below that of Lee, were Stonewall Jackson, the two Johnstons, Forrest, Pickett and Beauregard. Upon the other face of the arch there was in the center ...

— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House

... has always been the best of feeling between Sherman and myself, although attempts have not been wanting to make it ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various

... To James Whitcomb Riley A Health to Mark Twain A Rondeau of College Rhymes The Mocking-bird The Empty Quatrain Inscriptions for a Friend's House The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens The Sun-dial ...

— Music and Other Poems • Henry van Dyke

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