The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-17
SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGNS.
INCIDENTS OF GEN. SHERMAN'S
MILITARY CAREER. f.I
THE VICKSBURG HISTORY
LETTERS, ETC.

We extract below some further dOcu-
ments of interest from Col. Bowman's
compendious and documentary history.
of Sherman's campaigns. The title OF
the book is, fisherman and his Cam
paigns: A Military Biography, by Col.
s. NJ. Bowman and Lieutenant r.. b. |
Irwin. New York Charles B. Richard
son. Cincinnati: c. F Vent d Co.
The work is in one volume, and con-
tains steel portraits of Generals Sher-
man, Howard, Slocum, Logan, Blair,
Schofield, Davis and Fitzpatrick, anden-
graved maps furnished by the chief en-
gineer of Sherman's army, General Poe,
| of the marches from Chattanooga to AT
lanta, thence to Savannah, and thence
| to Goldsboro', and of the battle of Resaca
and the siege of Atlanta. Colonel Bow
man is personal friend of General
| Sherman, and served with him as saw
airy officer during the part of the West.
ern campaigns. He has access to all
General Sherman's letter-books, and his
volume is, therefore, one ofgreat novelty
and historical Importance. 1t is admir-
, ably written. '''.
AFTER vICKsBURG.
After the capture of Vicksburg Sher-
man wrote to Admiral Porter:
~ can appreciate the intense satisfac-
ton you must feel at lying before the
very monster that had defied us with
such deep and malignant hate, and see
ing your once disunited fleet again aunt;
and better still, the chain that made an
enclosed sea of II link in the great river
broken forever. In SO magnificent re-
suit stop not to count who did il. 1t Is
done, and the day of our nations birth
is consecrated and baptized anew in .
! victory won by the united navy ant
I army Ofour country. God grant that thu
5 harmony and mutual respect that exists
:, between our respective commanders, an'
y shared by all the true men Of the join
D service, may continue forever, and Iserv'
I TO elevate our national character, threat
ened with shipwreck. Thus 1 muse N
I | sit in my solitary camp out in the Woo
far from the point for which we have
I Justly striven so long and so well, anc
though personal curiosity would tempt
ne 10 go and see the irOWning batteries
and sunlSen pits that have dcfied us Sc
, long, and sent to their silent graves 80
many of our early comrades in the en-
l terprise, feel that other tasks lie before
I me, and time must not he lost. With
: out casting anchor, and despite the heat
+ and the dust and the drought, l must
e again into the bowels of the land to
: make the conquest of Vicksburg fulfil
4; all the conditions it should in the pro
4 eress of this war. Whether success at
= tend my efforts or not, know thai. Ad-
/ miral Porter will ever accord to mo thu
exhibition of pure and unselfish yea
i'm the service of our country.
"Though further apart, the navy ant
army will still act in concert, and i as
sure you shall lever reach the banks
of the river or see gunboat hut will
: think of Admiral Porter, Capt. Bre,ese
and the many elegant and accomplished
gentlemen it has been my good fortune
to meet on armed or unarlned decks %
the Mississippi squadron t...
SHERMAN ON CONSUMPTION
While the new levies of 1868 were be-
, ing raised, in a letter to the governor OF
[ his native State, he took occasion to urge
/ the importance of filling up the ranks
/ of the veteran regiments rather than
raising new ones. II believe e, y he said,
? "you will pardon one who rarely travels
out of his proper sphere, to express an
: earnest hope that the strength OF our
people will not again be wasted by the
e organization of new regiments, while
] we have in the field skeleton regiments,
with officers, non-commissiOned officers
and men, who only need numbers to
/, make a magnificent army. '
1.-THE President of the United States
6 is now clothed with power that should
: have been conferred just two years ago,
: and feel assured he will use it, He
e will call for a large mass of men, and
4 then should all be priudtes, and sent sc
/ as to make every regiment in the fielt
e equal to one thousand men. Time ha:
convinced all reasonable men that wal
$ in theory and practice are two distinc
t things. Many an honest patriot, full o
;, enthusiasm, zeal, and thirst for glory
has, in practice, found himself uneuua
= to the actual requirements of war, an,
= passed to one side, leaving another in hi
place and, now, after two years, Obi
J., has in the field one hundred and TWEEN
e ty-six regiments, whose officers now ar
: qualified, and the men of which woul
! give tone and character to the new re
cruits.. To fill these regiments will re
v quire fifty thousand recruits, which ar
$ as many as the State could we'll rails,
| therefore hope and pray that you wi
: use your influence against any more ne,
regiments and consolidation of old ones
a but fill up all the old ones to a full
| Stduudtu. HOSe WHO tdlk Oh pTOiup
J, and speedy peace know not what the,
d say" f#a.a.
. SHERMAN MADE BROADER IN THE REGULAl
ARMY.
/. On the 18th of August he received
II from the War Departments commission
% as brigadier general in the regular army
= of the United States, dating from the ftf
Of of July, 1863, aud thus acknowledges
n his Indebtedness to General Grant fol
le his new honor:
al had the satisfaction to receive las
10 night the appointment as brigadier gen
20 ersl in the regular army, with a lette
q from General Halleck very friendly ant
re complimentary in its terms. know
10 that owe thisto your favor, and beg T.
Of acknowledge it ana add, that ! vaiu
If that this will associate my name wit