"Ordinarily, it's not a good career move to marry your sister, even if it's your foster sister; but for Sherman it was brilliant, leaving him with political connections as powerful as any other general in American history, and also with the redoutable Ellen Ewing. Every bit as intelligent and determined as Sherman and religious to the point of loopyness, Ellen stood up to him during thirty-eight years of marriage--the South only managed four" (Robert L. O'Connell, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, xx).
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