Katie

** By Katie B. ** **__ Resources __** ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Sherman **
 * //__ Sidney Sherman __//**
 * Sidney Sherman, born on June 23rd, 1805, was one of 10 children. His two parents had left young Sherman orphaned, at the age of 12. **
 * Sidney got a job as a clerk at a store somewhere in Boston. He worked there for a while, and then went to the sea. He settled in New York, and then drifted to the Ohio valley in 1831. **
 * He united with a company in Cincinnati for the purpose of establishing extensive factories in Newport. His brother, Dana Sherman, bought land in Newport in 1832 **
 * Sherman became a Texan General and Key Leader in the Texas Revolution. The Texas army assembled the Newport rifles into its second Regiment. They elected Sherman to be their commander in 1836. **
 * Texas independence was doomed when //Santa Anna// moved his army of 1400 against Sherman’s 800. On April 21, Houston attacked his enemies’ camp place. Sherman stayed in Texas and got elected as a Major General of the Republic. Sherman took lead in organizing the first railroad in Texas and served as a general of the Texas state troops during the Civil War, in which Union forces destroyed his property. Sadly, he died at Galveston on August 1, 1837. **