sentences:  Sherman was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress and served one term (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859).In September 1861 Sherman joined the Union Army for the American Civil War, receiving appointment as a commissary of subsistence officer with the rank of captain and serving until resigning his commission on November 9, 1861.Sherman died in Angelica on November 12, 1881.