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the capital he individually possessed into these two ventures. He had the <iistinction of building the first railroad west of the Sabine and the second west of the Mississippi. The line that he began later became the Galves- ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad, and the first locomotive pur- chased for this road was named "The General Sherman." In 1847, Sher- man moved his family to Harrisburg, and in 1855 to Galveston, where he owned and operated the Island City Hotel. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Confederacy, and in 1861. was requested by the Com- mittee of Safety to take charge of affairs at Galveston with full authority to put the island in a state of defense. In 1862, he moved his wife and three children to their old home on San Jacinto Bay. His three oldest daughters were at the time at school in Kentucky, while Sidney, Jr., the (,ldest son was in the Confederate Army. This son was killed, January 1, 1863, in the Battle of Galveston, by a shot from the Harriet Lane. After his death the Sherman family moved to Richmond, Fort Bend County, where they remained till after the close of the war. There their only remaining s~n died, and soon afterwards, Mrs. Sherman also died while on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Morgan, at Houston. General Sherman died at his daughter's home in Galveston on August 1, 1873. See Yoakum, History of Texas, II, 138-139. Johnson-Barker, I, 442, 445, 448. Texas Almanac, 1860, 135-139. Wortham, III, passim, V, 217. Thrall, A Pictorial Histo111 of Texas, 617-619. Dixon and Kemp, H e1·oes of Sein Jacinto, 289-292. 3 Henry Millard was born in Mississippi Territory in 1807 and died at Galveston in 1844. He was .married to Mary Beaumont at Natchez on August 24, 1826, but Mrs. Milla1·d died before her husband migrated to Texas in 1835. Henry Millard settled in the Liberty municipality, and from there has was sent with Claiborne West to the Consultation in 1835. Jefferson municipality was created from Liberty municipality by the Con- r.ultation (Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 645), and was named for Jefferson Beaumont-a brother-in-law of Henry Millard-who at the time was a 1·esident of Natchez, Mississippi. Beaumont later moved to Texas and became the second chief justice of Calhoun County. Millard was commis- sioned by the Consultation lieuteant colonel commanding the first regiment cf infantry in the Texas Army; and his service record (Texas State Library) shows that he served in the Texas Army from December 15, 1835, to December 16, 1836. Houston appointed him chief justice of Jefferson County, the Senate confirming the appointment, November 8, 1837. He held this office until his voluntary resignation of it in 1841. He moved to Galveston in 1843 and died there in 1844. On August 28, 1844, he made },is will. It was opened for probate in Jefferson County, March 7, 1845, and is now on file in the clerk's office of that county. See Yoakum, II, 12. J. J. Linn, Fifty Years in Texas, 204-207. Wooten (ed.), Comprehensive History of Te.xa.s, I, 189, 190-281, passim. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Joiwna.ls of the Sena.te of the Republic of Texa.s, 22, 86. Dixon and Kemp, 89-90. Thrall, 592. •Edward Burleson. See Houston to Henry Smith, January 30, 1836.
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