| 1. | Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was born on 8 Feb 1820 in Lancaster, OH; died on 14 Feb 1891 in Washington, DC. Notes: Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Son of Charles Robert Sherman; adoptive son of Thomas Ewing; brother of John Sherman. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, February 8, 1820. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Secretary of War, 1869. |