re: Remembering Former LSU President on Anniversary of his Birth

Another fun fact: while on an inspection tour of Texas frontier forts in 1868, Sherman was almost ambushed by a Kiowa war party. They would easily have overwhelmed his small 18 man escort, but a medicine man said to wait, a richer target would be along soon. A few hours later a wagon train appeared which the Kiowa set upon and annihilated.