The Sherman House Museum in Lancaster, Ohio opens for the season, offering a glimpse into the lesser-known aspects of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's life. Director Michael Johnson emphasizes the importance of portraying historical figures as ordinary people who accomplished extraordinary feats.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history . The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are uncovered at the Sherman House Museum in Lancaster , Ohio . It opens for the season today, Wednesday, April 10. RAISE 500-POUND PUMPKINS IN YOUR BACKYARD: 5 TIPS FROM AMERICA'S WORLD-RECORD GOURD GROWER 'Sometimes we turn these heroes, like we’ve done with George Washington, almost into gods.
' The museum displays needlepoint by the soldier's mother, Mary Hoyt Sherman, and four chairs carved with scenes from Shakespeare's plays. Sherman had the chairs made after the war when he lived in New York City, where he became a prominent supporter of its famous theater scene. Among other little-known contributions to American history: Sherman, while living in New York, personally selected Ellis Island as the location to place the Statue of Liberty, gifted by the people of France.
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