The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-11-16
miscellaneous.
Union Generals in Kentucky

Union Generals in Kentucky
The Nolin correspondent of the Gin.
cinuati Gasettc gives the following des.
cription of some of the Union general,
in Kentucky:
Kentucky is we'll supplied with gen.
erals. She has now eieven of them in
active operation within her limits, a num-
Der of native aspirants, who are already
rejoicing in the titles, but whose com
missions are dependent on their raising
their brlgades. The generals in COM
mand-ali brigadiers-are Sherman,
McCook. Wook, johnson, Rousseau,
Naglec, Thomas Schocph, Nelson, Smith,
and Wallace. Ohio has the honor of
having both the commander of the de-
paItment and the commander Of the most
important column. Kentucky has three
out of the eleven, aud three of the ablcst
Generals Wood, johnson, and Rous-
scau. Pennsylvania has one, General
Naglee Indiana one, Gen. Lew. " al
lace one is Il Hungarian, Gen. Schoeptf;
one is from the United States Navy,
Gen. Nelson and two, Generals Thomas
and Smith, have been So long in the reg
uar army that one would hardly think
of them now as attached to any particu-
lar State.
Military Education.
Six Of the eleven are graduates at
West Point, and have served in the reg
ular army Generals Sherman, McCook,
Wood, johnson, Thomas, aud Smith. -
Genera! Nelson is graduate of the
Naval Academy, and General Schoepf of
some of the European military schools.
OF the eleven, eight, therefore, arc men
who have been educated to war as IA pro
tcssion, and each of whom has had more
or less experience in the conduct of mil.
itary affairs.
Briadier General VIM. Tecumseh
sherman.
the General Commanding" in the
Department of the Cumberland, gradual
ted from West Point, in the artillery
corps, in 1910, and immediately entered
the third Regiment of Artillery as Il
second lieutenant. He remained in the
service for little over thirteen years,
served in California as first lieutenant Of
his company during the Mexican war !;
two years after its close was promoted
to be conmssary of subsistence, with
the rank ofcaptain, and held this position
till he resigned in September, 1858.
The record is certainly not very
brilliant one, yet it comprises the whole
of Gen. Sherman's military experience,
up o the uutbr ak of the rebellion After
his resignation he went South and became
president of the State Military Institute
OF Louisiana. itesigning this position
after the bombarGmcnt of Fort Sumter,
he returned North on the 18th of May,
was commissioned colonel of the Thir-
teenth u. s. Infantry, and three DAYS
later, Brigadier General of volunteers.
AS he owed his orr gnal appointment to
West Point as Cadet, in 1916, to the
influence of his father, (Hon. &. r..
Sherman, of Lancaster, formerly a
Supreme Judge of Ohio,) so his rapid
promotion from comn'ssary to colonel,
aud from colonel to general, is in part,
at least, attributable to the fact that he
is brother to our Senator, John Sher-
man. Since his appointment as brigadier
general, he was i'll the first battle of his
life, as commander Of t.c Third Brigade
at Bull Run.
Among army officers, who know him
best, General Sherman is rcputcd an
able man of excellent administrative
ability, and with an acquaintance with
military science that his position as pre-
sdcnt of IL military institute gave him
fine opportunity for extending and per-
tectlng. His friends predict for him Il
brilliant success in managing the affairs
of his department, and none of US can
fail to hope that the prediction may be
realized to the full.
Some splenetlc correspondent, whom
General Sherman had doubtless offended
III his hearty and rather old nIaidsh hatred
OF newspaper men, by refusing HIM a
"pass,' described the commander of the
department as " bred among the Canaan
che Indians, and still retaining their
habits to greater extent than is usual
among civilized beings" General Sher.
man certainly does not waste any unne-
cessary time in the amenities of life, but
he has more serious matters on hand ::
and 1t is far more to his credit that no
man can say he ever approached him
with business and did not have it promptly
transacted. lie may be little gruif,
but he Is always prompt and clear, and
his very gruffness seems to arise rather
from his entire absorption in his plans
than from the natural habit of the man.
AS he rides by my window, while |
write, with the firm scat and graceful
pose that characterize all West Pointers
ON horseback, the General, looking like
self-absorbed Puritan, deep in thoughts
ana plans OF his own, contrasts finely
with the bluff, frank officer that rides
beside him in the person of General
McCook. Take Senator John Sherman
(whose personal appearance few, familiar
with the prominent men of the West,
will need to have described), sharpen
the angles and bronze the color on his
face, give him simmer and more sinewy
frame, put casing of stubby brown
black beard around his throat aud over
half his cheeks and chin, replace the
suave smile of the politician, with the
stern. talfubstracted. half vineoarv