![]() ![]() After this brief period of schooling he moved to Chicago in 1900, departing from Clyde for good although he later returned to visit. After his return from Cuba he was in Clyde again briefly before leaving for Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio for what would be his last year of formal education. After his mother’s death, Anderson spent two years working in a Chicago warehouse before returning to Clyde to join his Ohio National Guard unit for service in the Spanish-American War, where he saw no action and was posted to the American south and later Cuba. The setting of Winesburg, a fictional town in northwestern Ohio, is based closely on Clyde, Ohio, the town to which Anderson’s family moved when he was seven years old and where he lived until his mother died in 1895. Photo from Walter Rideout’s “Sherwood Anderson: A Writer In America, Volume 1.” Sherwood Anderson as an Ohio National Guardsman during the Spanish-American War. ![]()
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