not Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman) was the namesake of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado engine the General Sherman, the first railroad locomotive in Texas References San Jacinto Museum, Veteran Biographies 1805 births 1873 deaths People from Kentucky People of the Texas Revolution Army of the Republic of Texas generals Members of the Texas House of Representatives People of Texas in the American Civil War 19th-century American politicians