Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-06-08
sHERMAN'S FAREWELL.

SHERMAN'S FAREWELL.
The following is Sherman's fare
well address to his army:
HEADeRs M1t. DIS. OF MIssrsstPpr,
In THE FIELD, WASHINGTON, d. C..
May 80. 1865.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS No. 76.1
The General commanding the for
ces of the Army of the Tennessee
announces that the time has come
for us to part. Our work is done,
and arfi1ed enemies no longer defy
US. Some of you will be retained in
service until further orders, and now
that we are about to separate to min
gle with the civil world, it becomes
a pleasing duty to recall to mind the
situation CT national affairs when but
little more than year ago. we were
gathered about the towering caps of
Lockout Mountain, and the future
was wrapped in doubt and uncer-
tairtr. Three armies had come to-
Eether from different fields, with o
separate history, bound by one com
mon cause.-the union of our coun-
try aid the Government of our in
heritance. There is no need to re-
call to your memories Tunnel Hill,
with the Rocky Face Mountain and
Buzzard Roost Gap, With the ugly
forts of Dalton behind. We were in
earnest and paused not for danger
and difficulty. but pushed through
Snake Creek Gap, and fell on Reseca
then on Dallas, and Kenesaw. Then
the heats of summer found us on the
banks OF the Chattshoochie, far from
home, and dependent upon a single
line for supplies; but we we're not to
be held back by any obstacle, and
crossed over and fought over four
hours battle; gained possession of
the citadel of Atlanta. That was the
crisis of our history. A doubt still
clouded our future, but we had the
problem, and destroying Atlanta, we
struck boldly across the State of
Georgia; severed all the main arte-
ries of life to our eneiiy, and Christ
mas found us at Savannah, waiting
there only long enough to fill our
wagons. We again began a march,
which for peril, labor and results,
will compare with any ever ma g by
an organized army. The foods of
the Savannah, the swamps of the
Cambahee and Edisto, the high hills
and rocks of the Santee, the dat
quagmires of the Pedee and Cape
Fear rivers were all passed in mid
winter, with its foods and rains. In
the face Of an accumulating enemy,
and after the battery of Aver5sboro
and Bentopsville, we once more came
out of the wilderness to meet your
friends at Goldsboro. Even then
we paused only long enough to re
load our wagons, and pushed on
again to Raleigh and beyond, until
we meet the enemy sueing for peace
instead Of war, and offering to sub
NIT to the injured laws ofhls and our
country. AS long as that enemy was
defiant, mountains, rivers, swamps
nor hunger nor cold had not checked
us; but when he who had fought us
hard and persistently, offered sub
mission, our General thought 1t
wrong to pursue him further, and
negotiations followed which were
attended IS you all know by his sur
render. How far the operations of
the enemy here contributed to the
overthrow Of the Confederacy, and
the peace which now dawns on us
must be judged by others, not by US;
but that you have done all that men
could do has been admitted by those
in authority, and we have 8 right to
join in the universal joy that falls on |
our land, because the war is over,
and our Government stands vindi- |
Gated before the world by the joint
action of the armies of the United
States. Such as remain in the mill
tary service, your General need only
remind you that success in the past
is due to hard work and discipline,
and that the same work and disci, |
pline are equally important in the
future. To such as go home, we win |
only say that our favored country is
SO grand, so extensive, SO diversified
in climate, so rich in productions
that every man, surely, can find
home and occupation suited to his
taste. and none should yield to natu-
raj inapalina, sure to result from our
past life of excitement and adven-
ture. You will be invited to seek
new advantages abroad, but do not