McMillan, Charles (fl. 1866) to William T. Sherman
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00955.01 Author/Creator: McMillan, Charles (fl. 1866) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph manuscript signed Date: circa 1866 Pagination: 1 p. ; 24 x 15 cm. Order a Copy
Writes an inscription to Major General Sherman on a blank flyleaf apparently removed from the "History of Julius Caesar" presenting this "brochure." Hopes that Sherman will be induced to write a similar history about the Civil War. " ... this Imperial brochure may induce him to undertake at some early leisure 'Commentaries' on a war of more magnificent proportions than Cesar's Gallic one in which so much has been done by himself & this great army toward making the history of the time and illustrating the American name." Signs the inscription, "from his devoted friend and former staff officer," as a surgeon in the U.S. Volunteers.
A soldier named Charles McMillan from New York, enlisted as a Surgeon on 19 April 1861 at the age of 36. He was commissioned in Company S, 71st Infantry Regiment New York on 3 May 1861. Stanley P. Hirshson, in a biography of Sherman titled, "The White Tecumseh," references a Major Charles McMillen (note the discrepancy in spelling) as Sherman's medical director. It appears this may be the same man though in GLC 955.03, Sherman refers to McMillan as "Ingram McMillan," instead of Charles.
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Major General W.T. Sherman U.S.A. in the hope that reading this Imperial brochure may induce him to undertake at some early leisure "COMMENTARIES " on a war of more magnificent proportions that Caesar's Gallic one in which so much has been done by himself this great army toward making the history of our time and illustrating the American name. From his devoted friend and former staff officer
Ingram McMillan
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