SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH, Lt.General. Autograph letter signed ("W.T. Sherman") to Admiral David Dixon Porter, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; Head Quarters, Military Division of the Missouri at Lancaster, Ohio, 4 August 1868, 3 pages, 8vo, on imprinted Head Quarters stationery, "A friend of mine, of the Old Army, N.G. McLean of Cincinnati writes me that his nephew, 14 years old, named Slough, has been appointed a cadet to the Naval Academy and ordered to report to Annapolis in September. McLean and his sister...propose to go on with him, and are anxious about the Examination. They wish me to bespeak some indulgence by reason of the boy's antecedents. His father was a Lawyer in Leavenworth ...with me in 1858. When the war broke out, he went into service as a Colonel, and became a Brigadier General, and at the close of the war was appointed Chief Justice of New Mexico. You may read the fact that he was there murdered by a Californian so that his [the son's] mother is now a widow, in deep distress. The fact that General Slough's family was changed about from place to place made the proper schooling of his children an impossibility....I do think by reason of the services of General Slough, and of his death in the high office he held, his son is worthy of generous treatment...."

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SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH, Lt.General. Autograph letter signed ("W.T. Sherman") to Admiral David Dixon Porter, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; Head Quarters, Military Division of the Missouri at Lancaster, Ohio, 4 August 1868, 3 pages, 8vo, on imprinted Head Quarters stationery, "A friend of mine, of the Old Army, N.G. McLean of Cincinnati writes me that his nephew, 14 years old, named Slough, has been appointed a cadet to the Naval Academy and ordered to report to Annapolis in September. McLean and his sister...propose to go on with him, and are anxious about the Examination. They wish me to bespeak some indulgence by reason of the boy's antecedents. His father was a Lawyer in Leavenworth ...with me in 1858. When the war broke out, he went into service as a Colonel, and became a Brigadier General, and at the close of the war was appointed Chief Justice of New Mexico. You may read the fact that he was there murdered by a Californian so that his [the son's] mother is now a widow, in deep distress. The fact that General Slough's family was changed about from place to place made the proper schooling of his children an impossibility....I do think by reason of the services of General Slough, and of his death in the high office he held, his son is worthy of generous treatment...."