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Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. (October 12, 1856 – April 29, 1933) was an American lawyer, educator, and Catholic priest. He was the fourth child and second son of Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman . Life. Sherman was named after his maternal grandfather Thomas Ewing, a U.S. Senator and cabinet secretary. [1]
His foster son was the famous general William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman eventually married Thomas Ewing Sr.'s daughter, Ellen Ewing Sherman. Ewing's namesake son, Thomas Ewing Jr., was an American Civil War Union army general and two-term U.S. Congressman from Ohio.
Thomas Ewing, Jr. was born in Lancaster, Ohio on August 7, 1829. He was the foster brother of William Tecumseh Sherman, and he became Sherman’s brother-in-law when Sherman married Ewing’s sister Ellen. Sherman and Ewing remained close during their years as Union army generals.
12. Jan. 2024 · August 7, 1829–January 21, 1896. Thomas Ewing, Jr., was a prominent lawyer and politician who served as a Union general in the West during the American Civil War. In June 1862, Thomas Ewing, Jr. helped organize the “Red Legs,” a unit of scouts that protected the Kansas border from marauders headquartered in Missouri.
- Harry Searles
Thomas Ewing Jr. (August 7, 1829 – January 21, 1896) was an attorney, the first chief justice of Kansas and leading free state advocate, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and two-term United States Congressman from Ohio, 1877–1881.
Charles Ewing, son of Thomas Ewing, a U.S. Senator and Treasury Secretary, writes to William T. Sherman, his adoptive brother, in 1861. He informs him of his promotion to Brigadier General and asks for his father's approval.
Thomas Ewing Jr. was the adoptive step-brother of William T. Sherman. Thomas Ewing Sr. was an Ohio Senator and U. S. Secretary of the Treasury. He raised Sherman as his own son after Sherman's father died in 1829. Ewing Jr. was an ardent anti-slavery man. His observations on the election fraud in Kansas were later instrumental in blocking the ...
