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Stolen Sherman Painting Comes Home to Lancaster
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/02c33b09-26a7-4085-a29b-c0dd7613a415/69BC2D52-814A-452C-B3EA-B8A31985E825/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101" href="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101" style="font-size: 11px;">dispatch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dispatch.com/img/5BBD77F1-704B-42D0-B77E-9CF59FCBED65" alt="The Sherman portrait after restoration (above) and before restoration (below)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101"><P class="wire">Lancaster native William Tecumseh Sherman is coming home.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101"><P>A rare original portrait of a youthful Sherman, stolen from the Sherman House Museum in Lancaster in 1982, has been recovered, restored and will be returned to the museum in a March 29 ceremony.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101"><P>Sherman, a Civil War general who was appointed commander of the U.S. Army after Ulysses S. Grant became president, probably had the painting of him in civilian clothes done when he was superintendent of what would later become Louisiana State University.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101"><P>The Sherman House Museum, originally the Sherman family home, was burglarized in 1982. The painting and 69 other items were stolen.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/19/sherman_returns.html?sid=101"><P>The painting didn't resurface until last November when officials with the Ohio Historical Society and the Fairfield Heritage Association discovered it was about to be auctioned in Delaware, Ohio. Lancaster police returned the painting to the Historical Society.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/69BC2D52-814A-452C-B3EA-B8A31985E825/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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