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WI General Sherman had accepted the presidential nomination of the Union Party?

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Jun 8, 2012, 10:49:02 PM6/8/12
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5th June, 1876

Sherman was a reluctant candidate, but had finally been persuaded to
run by his friend and fellow commander in the War of the States,
General George H. Thomas, who warned that the U.S. had become
dangerously politically unstable in the decade following Southern
secession and needed "a strong hand in these times of trial". Sherman
was one of the few prominent Union commanders to escape disgrace in
defeat, despite having been involved in the debacle of April 6-7, 1862
at Shiloh, Tennessee. Badly wounded in the Confederate assault on the
6th, he was unable to function effectively the next day, when what
might have been an orderly Union retreat turned into a full-scale
rout. Historians would later identify Shiloh as a crucial turning-
point in the war, but it would be Sherman's junior, Hiram Ulysses
Grant - more commonly known as Ulysses S. Grant - who would take the
bulk of the blame for the disaster.

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