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David Williams Cheever Scholarship: Francis McC. Ingersoll, Tecumseh...
...during William Tecumseh Sherman's famed March to the Sea, Union soldiers stole two pigs from the Georgia estate of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Last week Sherman's grandnephew, Lieutenant John B. Sherman, sent two Poland-China pigs to Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis at the War Department in Washington. He enclosed a note...
...always thought was: "War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." Hard-headed soldier, he defined military fame: "To be killed on the field of battle and have our names spelled wrong in the newspapers." Like his good friend Ulysses Simpson Grant a failure in civil life. William Tecumseh Sherman thrived on civil war. Like the old soldier in the song, he "simply faded away" (it took him 25 years) into the most sought-after speaker and diner-out of his generation...
...statistical expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office on the second floor of the Treasury overlooking statues of Alexander Hamilton and William Tecumseh Sherman, with the Potomac beyond. So preoccupied was the Treasury's Undersecretary with the debt negotiations that he cancelled his usual Friday-to-Monday holiday at his summer home in Westbury, L. I. Miss Beatrice Todd, Mr. Mills's admiring secretary, has rarely worked harder or later at the Treasury...
...Tecumseh, Mich...