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Noun: Sherman  shur-mun
  1. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793)
    - Roger Sherman
     
  2. United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
     
  3. A peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high)
    - Mount Sherman
     
  4. A town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border

Type of: American Revolutionary leader, full general, general, mountain peak, town

Part of: Centennial State, CO, Colo., Colorado, Lone-Star State, Tex., Texas, TX

Encyclopedia: Sherman, Peter