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38. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, June 17,
1845, September 24, 1850.
39. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, October
10, 1863; Sherman to Minnie Sherman,
March 15, 1863, January 28, 1864;
Sherman to the Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., March 1,
1867, May 5, 1870. Father Sorin was
president of the University of Notre Dame.
40. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, June 6,
1862, April 30, 1878; Sherman to Minnie
Sherman, October 4, 1862; David P.
Conyngham, "Soldiers of the Cross" (manuscript,
University of Notre Dame), Chap. IV;
Ellen Sherman to Sherman, June 23, 1861. Indi-
cations, but no proof, exist that Ellen
Sherman had the Rev. Joseph Carrier, C.S.C., sent
to Sherman's camp to check on reports
that her husband was mentally disturbed.
41. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, September
16, 1846.
42. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, September
18, 1846.
43. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, January 6,
March 24, 1872. An example of his detailed
church descriptions is in the letter of
January 6.
44. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, May 26,
July 24, 1872.
45. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, July 26,
1872. See also Sherman to Thomas Sherman,
March 1, 1872.
46. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, October
29, 1859, September 17, 1844.
47. Lloyd Lewis, Sherman, Fighting
Prophet (New York, 1932), 628-631.
48. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, July 14,
1855.
49. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, June 14,
1844.
50. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, July 26,
1872. See also Sherman to Ellen Sherman,
July 7, 1872.
51. For examples of the children's
intolerance, see Minnie Sherman to Ellen Sherman,
May 29, 1878, and Thomas Sherman to his
brother Philemon Sherman, February 24, 1890.
52. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, August 25,
1872.
53. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, November
21, 1860. This is a copy of the original
letter, which was destroyed by Philemon
Sherman.
54. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, April 29,
1855, December 1, 1859.
55. Sherman to Thomas Sherman, November
10, 1864; Sherman to Ellen Sherman,
November 29, 1860; Sherman to Thomas
Sherman, March 29, 1872.
56. Sherman to Minnie Sherman, April 20,
1888, January 2, 1890.
57. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, January
29, 1861, August 1879, April 4, August 23,
1887.
58. Sherman to John T. Doyle, June 16,
1878.
59. Sherman to Major Henry Turner, June
28, June 5, July 24, 1878.
60. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, April 15,
1864.
61. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, January
15, 1865; Sherman to Thomas Sherman,
March 29, 1872.
62. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, September
16, 1883. See also Sherman to Mrs. Alex-
ander Thackara (Eleanor Sherman), May
24, 1881; Sherman to Minnie Sherman, June
16, 1878; and Sherman to John T. Doyle,
July 28, 1878.
63. The quotation is from Sherman to
Major Henry Turner, July 13, 1878. See also
Sherman to Major Turner, May 27, July 7,
1878.
64. Sherman to Major Henry Turner, May
27, 1878. See also Sherman to Minnie
Sherman, June 16, 1878, and Sherman to
John T. Doyle, July 28, 1878.
65. Thomas Sherman's relationship with
his father is reflected in Thomas Sherman
to Sherman, May 25, 1878, July 14,
September 1, 1880. The gradual softening of Sher-
man's attitude is seen in Sherman to
Ellen Sherman, August 24, 1880 (postscript written
by Rachel Sherman), and Sherman to Mrs.
Alexander Thackara, December 30, 1880.
66. Ellen Sherman to Minnie Sherman. May
31, 1878.
67. Letter of John Sherman, dated
February 13, 1891, in New York Sun, February 19,
1891. See also John Sherman, Recollections
of Forty Years, II, 1102-1103.
68. Sherman to Mrs. Alexander Thackara,
May 24, 1881.
NOTES ON THE
ANTE-BELLUM CATTLE INDUSTRY FROM
THE McNEILL FAMILY
PAPERS
The author gratefully acknowledges the
patient encouragement, guidance, and criticism
of Dr. William D. Barns in a seminar in
American Agricultural History at West Virginia
University.
1. James Westfall Thompson, History
of Livestock Raising in the United States,
1607-1860, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural
History Series, No. 5
(November 1942); Charles Townsend
Leavitt, "The Meat and Dairy Livestock Industry,
1819-1860" (unpublished doctoral
dissertation, University of Chicago, 1931).