Thomas West Sherman was a United States Army officer with service during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. While some contemporaries mistakenly identified him as the brother of the more famous General William T. Sherman, modern scholarship notes that the two were not closely related.
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 8, 1862. General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Hilton Head: GENERAL: By the steamer McClellan, which left for Hilton Head this morning, I informed…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 8, 1862. General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Hilton Head: GENERAL: By the steamer McClellan, which left for Hilton Head this morning, I informed…
Washington, March 10, 1862. Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN, U. S. A., Commanding, &c., Port Royal, S. C.: GENERAL: I am instructed to inform you that, in consequence of information…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 13, 1862. GENERAL: Your letters of the 10th and 12th instant were received this evening, through Mr. Boutelle, U. S. Coast Survey,…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD REGIMENT N. H. VOLS., March 13, 1862. : Port Royal, S. C., March 13, 1862. I have the honor to report that in compliance with instructions received from…