“According to Cothren, in his ‘History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut,’ the Sherman family came from Dedham, Essex County, England.” I read the Ulysses S Grant memoirs not that long ago, which he wrote while he was dying of mouth cancer as a way to secure a financial legacy for his family. Those memoirs were almost exclusively war-centered, as you’d guess for them, and were heavily researched and documented as much as possible. One of the most interesting takeaways I had with them was that Grant […]