Sherman is a U.S. city in and the county chair of Grayson County, Texas. The city’s population in 2020 was 43,645. It is one of the two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area, and it is allowance of the Texoma region of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.

Sherman was named after General Sidney Sherman (July 23, 1805 – August 1, 1873), a hero of the Texas Revolution. The community was designated as the county chair by the lawsuit of the Texas Legislature, which created Grayson County on March 17, 1846. In 1847, a publish office began operation. Sherman was originally located at the center of the county, but in 1848, it was moved not quite 3 miles (5 km) east to its current location. By 1850, Sherman had become an incorporated town under Texas law. It had afterward become a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route through Texas. By 1852, Sherman had a population of 300 and consisted of a public square similar to a log court house, several businesses, a district clerk’s office, and a church along the east side of the square. In 1861, the first flour mill was built.

During the 1850s and 1860s, Sherman continued to develop and to participate in regional politics. Because many residents of North Texas had migrated from the Upper South and unaided a low percentage were slaveholders, considerable Unionist sentiment existed in the region. E. Junius Foster, the publisher of Sherman’s antisecessionist Whig newspaper, the Patriot, circulated a petition to pronounce North Texas as an independent release state. Following Confederate alleyway of a conscription law, resistance arose to conscription in North Texas, especially as owners of many slaves were exempt.

A society of slaveholders in user-friendly Cooke County feared the Unionists might colleague others and play acts of sabotage. In October 1862, a unit of divulge militia arrested amongst 150 and 200 men on suspicion of insurrection. In the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 42 of the arrested men were killed, most of them hanged by a mob, while others were sentenced to death by a self-appointed “citizens’ court”. Following the lynchings, Colonel William Young, who had organized the judges for the “citizens’ court”, was killed by mysterious assailants. Young had been held responsible for greater than 20 deaths. Newspaper publisher Foster “applauded” Young’s death, and was soon gunned beside by Capt. Jim Young, the colonel’s son.