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Sherman
Meaning: a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border
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Sherman, Mount_Sherman
Meaning: a peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high)
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Sherman, Roger_Sherman
Meaning: American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793)
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Sherman, William_Tecumseh_Sherman
Meaning: United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)
Usage examples
Underneath was always written: "From your loving godmother, Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman."
"What do you think? It is an invitation to a house party at Locust; Lloyd Sherman's house party.
Sherman's whole division now raised itself up and rushed at the enemy, Dick and his comrades in the front of their own regiment.
He, therefore, gave up the idea of making Grand Gulf a base, and Sherman having now joined him with his corps, Grant struck at once into the interior.
Sherman must have recalled, too, how his statement that the North would need 200,000 troops in the west alone had been sneered at, and he had been called mad.
Sherman, McClernand and other generals now passed among their troops, cheering them, telling them that the time had come to win back what they had lost the day before, and that victory was sure.
With the aid of the fleet, which ran the batteries successfully, he moved his army down the west bank until he reached a point beyond the possibility of attack, while a diversion by Sherman at Haines' Bluff, above Vicksburg, kept Pemberton in his fortifications.
Eugene Field's poems had come in the last box, with Riley's "Songs of Childhood" and Kipling's jungle tales. Twelve beautiful books, all of Mrs. Sherman's giving, and they were like twelve great windows to Betty, opening into a new strange world, far away from the experiences of her every-day life.
Sherman's division, after its momentary repulse, gathered itself anew, and, although knowing now that the Southern army could not be entrapped, drove again with all its might upon the positions around the church. They passed over the dead of the day before, and gathered increasing vigor, as they saw that the enemy was slowly drawing back.