William Tecumseh Sherman

General Sherman redirects here. For information on the tree named after this person, see General_Sherman_tree.

Death

Sherman died in New York City, where he is memorialized by an equestrian statue created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and located the southeast entrance to Central Park. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Central Park - Calvary Cemetery - St. Louis, Missouri

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General Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate officer who had commanded the resistance to Sherman's troops as they marched through Georgia and South Carolina, served as a pallbearer at Sherman's funeral. It was a bitterly cold day in February, and a friend of Johnston, fearing that the general might become ill, asked him to put on his hat. Johnston famously replied: "If I were in place, and he were standing in mine, he would not put on his hat." Johnston did catch a serious cold, and died soon afterwards.

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Joseph E. Johnston - South Carolina - Pallbearer

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