8 February 1820 A.D. GEN William “Uncle Billy” Tecumseh Sherman Born
8 February 1820 A.D. GEN William “Uncle Billy” Tecumseh Sherman Born Editors. “1820 – Future Civil War General, William Tecumseh Sherman is born in Lancaster, Ohio. ” This Day in U.S. Military History. N.d. https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/february-8/ . Accessed 6 Feb 2015. 1820 – Future Civil War General, William Tecumseh Sherman is born in Lancaster, Ohio. His father died when he was young. Widowed and unable to care for the entire family, his mother sent brother Thomas to be raised by an aunt and William became a foster child to Thomas Ewing, his father’s friend. Cump, as he was known, later married Mr. Ewing’s daughter, Ellen. Educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he graduated in 1840. During the Mexican War, Sherman was posted in San Francisco. He resigned his commission in 1853 to become a partner in a bank there. Prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the North and the South, William Tecumseh Sherma...