Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
CHAPTER I.
ANCESTRY OF THE SHERMAN FAMILY. Family Name is of Saxon Origin--"Conquer Death by Virtue"--Arrival of Rev. John Sherman at Boston in 1634--General Sherman's Reply to an English Sexton--Career of Daniel Sherman--My First Visit to Woodbury--"Sherman's Tannery"--Anecdote of "Uncle Dan"--Sketch of My Father and Mother--Address to Enlisting Soldiers--General Reese's Account of My Father's Career--Religion of the Sherman Family--My Belief.