William T. Sherman Marker

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Locust St & N Broadway, 
St. Louis, MO 63102

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HISTORY

After Sherman returned from Louisiana, there was a letter from his old friend, Major H.S. Turner, offering him a position as president of the Fifth Street Railroad in St. Louis, Missouri. Sherman wrote back to accept the position in St. Louis before heading to Washington to see his brother. On April 1, 1861, Sherman moved his family into a rented house located on Locust Street between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. On May 14, 1861, William T. Sherman received word that he had been appointed Colonel, Thirteenth Regular Infantry and was needed in Washington immediately.