[KS] Re: Question on General Sherman

[Charles Rd K Armstrong]

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Dear Dan, Robert and all,

Would any of you know if there is a photograph or illustration depicting
the General Sherman in any of these materials? Theres is a small model of
the Sherman in the Korean War Memorial and I'm curious as to where this
image may have come from.

Charles

 On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Daniel Corey Kane wrote:

> 
> Dear Robert Armstrong and list members, 
> 
> Regarding the question on the General Sherman...I don't know if you have
> ever used either Cornell Univ or University of Michigan's digital
> archiving project called Making of America. Despite its name it can be
> very useful for researching Asian topics, notably as they're related to
> the U.S. It has full text data bases of American periodicals going back
> over 150 years, all indexed and searchable. Really amazing (to me). It can
> be found at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa. There's a link there to
> Michigan's site, which has archived different periodicals.  To
> get back to the Sherman, I had heard of Burgevine the self-styled general
> involved in the Taiping Uprising. He replaced the mortally wounded
> General Ward and was soon killed himself fighting the Taiping. I
> didn't, however, know of his connection to the Sherman, so I was
> intrigued by your mail. Thanks. Please see the following link (from
> Making of America) for an article that links him to the same ill-fated
> General Sherman.  
> 
> http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fgala%2Fgala0013%2F&tif=00315.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DACB8727-0013-42
> 
> Sorry for the incredibly long link. The citation is from: William Speer,
> "Corea: What Shall we Do with Her?" The Galaxy magazine, Vol. 13 No. 3
> (March 1872) p. 309
> 
> Dan Kane
> 
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Robert Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > I am sorry to bother the group with yet another question.....
> > 
> > There was an American mercenary named Burgevine who seized an American ship 
> > named the General Sherman while it was at Yokohama in late April 1865.  He 
> > then took this ship back to Taiwan in May and refurbished his ship and crew 
> > with mercenaries and weapons.  He was eventually arrested.
> > 
> > My question is:  Was this the same ship as the General Sherman that was 
> > destroyed by the Koreans?
> > 
> > Thanks for any assistance...
> > 
> > Robert