The opening few pages recount the aftermath of the General Sherman incident -- in 1871, Rear-Admiral John Rodgers and the American minister to China, Frederick Low, led "a flotilla of five ...

or military stores of any kind to Sherman’s invading army, whether more or less in amount, was a mere incident of a state of war, for which neither General Sherman nor his army was to blame.

Within Korea, the General Sherman Incident of 1866 further shaped the dominant reaction, among the country's political and social leaders, to prospects of contact with the outside world.

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SHERMAN, with the remark: "I feel that an expression of opinion by you contradictory of the inclosed statement, in a form avoiding everything personal, would be of importance." I give you his ...