Following the war General Sherman embarked on a series of business ventures starting with managing a sugar plantation in Louisiana for a year before returning to Chicago . Back in Chicago he worked as the city 's postmaster for two years and then started a stone and sand manufacturing company called Sherman , Haley & Company . The business was ruined in 1871 by the Great Chicago Fire which forced Sherman to seek business ventures elsewhere in the U.S. before he settled in Waukegan , Illinois where he died in 1905
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
Francis Trowbridge Sherman