The Shasta courier., 1864-10-01
Aneeaote. ol General shernan.

re-of General Sherman's character is
cniiar nervous energy that knows no ces-
uon, and which is resistless and inspiring
gives energy to others. He is untiring in
efforts, and hesitates at no amount of de-
y. Matters great and small receive his at
1on, and his decisions are given with the
noet promptitude, and seldom or never re.
r8qd. When Sherman was in command
Memphis, little over two years ago, a
Duncan, of Louisville, and his partner,
] @aying permit to purchase cotton, called
General Sherman, asking to be allowed to
S<ehange salt for cotton with the citizens be-
IAbd the limits of the city, but within our
Hs> Sherman replied very promptly,
~ fos' Arguments werctried in vain. when
ncap's partner thought he would try the
n3 acqnaintance" dodge on the General,
began by recalling recollections of the
y when Sherman was banker in Califor-
+ knew you, General" he said,
hen you were banking in San Francisco
3es," said Sherman; there's where /
trned to say no. 1t is y good school,
hard, earnest worker, Sherman devotes
n little time to sleep. When Sherman as
n ped command at Louisville, in 1861, the
Ger was engaged in the Associated Press
be in that city. At that time the Govern
ht was using the cyphers of the Associa-
Fress, and its agents were employed in
~ sporting and translatirg dispatches, and
b zee Sherman spent goodly portion of his
G. in the Press Office. lie would often be
he Office from eight O'Clock P. NJ. to three
q pck A.. NJ, and then retire to his room in
Gait House only because the Office was
ed. During these hours he would pace
md down the floor of the room, smoking
= after cigar, apparently in deep thought
- sheedless of the conversation going on
af11pd him. e
bis popularity of absence of mind found
a. mxcellent illustration in circumstance
bh occurred at Lebanon Junction, Ken
~. Sherman, with two regiments under
mel Lowell A. Rousseau, (now Major Gen.
a and a detachment under Lieutenant
mel X. w Johnston, who is now n Brig
ader, and who ought long ago to have been
made a MajorGeneral, occupied Lebanon
J0action on September 7, 1861 While walk
ing up and down the platform at that place,
awaiting the repair of the telegraph wire,
Shfrman's cigar gave out. lie Immediately
tooS another from his pocket. and asked the
orsHrly sergeant of the Marine Zouaves for
alfsht. The home guard sergeant had only
a moment before lighted his cigar, and with
a bbw, banded it to the General probably
thesirst Brigadier he had seen during the
wal. Sherman lighted his cigar carefully,
took puff or two to assure himself, and alb
str;ctedly threw the sergeant's cigar away.
A Snort time since, General Rousseau, who
sas the scene, mentioned the matter to Cen
I rAS!scrman. He coeld not recollect il, but
said, ~ was thinking of something else.
1t won't do to let to morrow take care of it.
self. Your good merchant don't think of the
ships that are in, but the ships that are to
come in The evil Of today is irreparable.
Look ahead to avoid breakers. You can't
when your ship is on them. All you can
then do is retrieve disaster. / was thinking
of something else when thre.- the sergeant's
cigar away" And then he added laughing,
:. Did l do that, really"
i. A short time ago, while q regiment was
moving by Sherman's headquarters-a tent
fly and fence corner near Kinesaw Noun.
tain-one of the soldiers observed major
general lying asleep by the roadside. He
spoke very loudly to his comrades, saying:
There's the way we are commanded-of6
cered by major generals who get drunk and
lie in fence corners" Sherman heard him,
and sprang to his feet. Not drunk, boys p
he said quietly, but l We been up all night,
and I'm very tired and sleepy" He got on
his horse, and followed by his staff, rode
away l am forcibly reminded by this Incl
dent of seeing General lhomas lying in
fence corner near John Ross's house, at Ross
vile, on the night our forces retired from
to Rossville. his features hand
some in their repose, but looking old from
the weariness of two days sleepless fighting,
aglow with the light of a great FIRE, which
had been built near by. General, lie down
on my blankets" Major F. II. Cross had said
to him you must be weary" 81 am tired"
said the old man, lying down and falling
asleep in few moments. For two days and
three nights he had not slept; but during
that sleepless labor he had saved a great
army and won undying renown as the hero
of Chicamauga, and he had doubly earned
his right to sleep.-Co Correspondence Of Nesc
York Herald,