[1] Francis T. Sherman traveled to West to participate in the California Gold Rush before returning to Illinois.

Sherman was one of the brigade commanders that made the charge up Missionary Ridge during the battle of Chattanooga.

He continued leading his brigade during the early part of the Atlanta Campaign at Rocky Face Ridge and Resaca before he was appointed as the chief of staff to the IV Corps.

He was officially exchanged on October 7, 1864 and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac as the assistant inspector general of the Cavalry Corps[3] during the Appomattox Campaign.

[3] Following the war General Sherman embarked on a series of business ventures starting with managing a sugar plantation in Louisiana for a year before returning to Chicago.