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- GLC#
- GLC00651
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 1, 1883
- Author/Creator
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Title
- to Mary Audenreid
- Place Written
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Signed on top of the first page. Sherman writes to Mary Audenreid, the widow of Sherman's aid from 1863 to 1880, Col. Joseph C. Audenreid. Sherman began an eight-year romantic relationship with her starting in 1880. He discusses remodeling his house. He explains his plans to retire due to his age; he will be turning over command of the Army to Philip Sheridan, on November 1, 1883. He plans to then move to St. Louis, and morbidly adds: "to wait for the final summons to Bellefontaine [Cemetery]."
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