Military Science Building at Louisiana State University

I'm a big William Tecumseh Sherman fan, so I had to stop here.

Sherman was the first Superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy in Pineville, Louisiana, from late 1859 to early 1861. Once Louisiana seceded from the Union, Sherman could not continue in his role as he did not support the rebellion, so he left and headed to St. Louis, Missouri. Sherman would eventually join the U.S. 13th Infantry as a Colonel in May 1861, and the rest is history.

Sherman looked back at his time at the Academy with great affection. After the war in April 1865, Sherman donated two brass cannons to the Academy. The cannons were reportedly captured from Confederate forces and were rumored to have been used in the initial firing on Fort Sumter in 1861. However, cannons were manufactured in 1861, so historians now believe they likely captured by the Union Navy at Fort Morgan, Alabama.

In October 1869, there was a fire that destroyed the Pineville campus. It was decided to move the school to Baton Rouge, and the name was changed to Louisiana State University. The cannons are now here, outside the Military Science Building at LSU.