William Tecumseh Sherman

Born:  Tuesday, February 8, 1820 Lancaster Ohio
Died:  Saturday, February 14, 1891 New York City New York
Buried:  Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis

Sherman died in New York City on February 14, 1891. On February 19, there was a funeral service held at his home there, followed by a military procession. Sherman's body was then transported to St. Louis, where another service was conducted on February 21, 1891 at a local Catholic church. His son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, a Jesuit priest, presided over his father's funeral mass.

Joe Johnston, the Confederate general whom Sherman had bedeviled through both Georgia and South Carolina, served as a pallbearer at Sherman's funeral. It was a bitter cold February day. A friend encouraged Johnston to don a hat, "General, please put on a hat. You might get sick."

Johnston replied, "If I were in his place, and he were standing in mine, he would not put on his hat."

Johnston caught a severe cold, and soon it was his funeral. So ended the ives of two Civil War adversaries.

Major memorials to Sherman include the gilded bronze equestrian statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the main entrance to Central Park in New York City and the major monument by Carl Rohl-Smith near President's Park in Washington, D.C. Other posthumous tributes include the naming of the World War II M4 Sherman tank and the "General Sherman" Giant Sequoia tree, the most massive documented single-trunk tree in the world.

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