Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-06-03
Gen. Sherman's Farewell Address.
The following is SHERMAN's farewell ad-
dress to his army: un

The following is SHERMAN's farewell ad-
dress to his army: .H un
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DISTRICT OF
MISSISSIPPI IN THE FIELD,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 80, 1866. J
Special Field Orders No. 76.] &"
The General commanding the forces of
the Army of the Tennessee announces that
the time has come for us to part. Our work
is done, and armed 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 mingle with the civil
world, it becomes pleasing duty to recall
to mind the situation of national affairs
when, but little more than year ago, we
were gathered about the towering caps of
Lookout Mountain, and the future was
wrappedin doubt and uncertainty. Three
armies had come, together from different
fields, with a separate history, bound by
one common cause.-the union OF our coun-
try and the Government of our Inheritance.
There is no need to recall to your memories
Tunnel Hill,with its 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 Chattahoochie, far from
home, and dependent upon a single line for
supplies; but we were 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
arteries of life to our enemy, and Christmas
found us at Savannah, waiting there only
long enough to fill our wagons. We again
began march, which for peril, labor and
results, will compare with any ever made
by an organized army. The floods of the
Savannah, the swaInps of the Combahee and
Edisto, the high hills and rocks of the San
tee, the fiat quagmires of the Pedee and
Cape Fear rivers, were all passed in midi
winter, with its floods and rains. In the
face OF an accumulating enemy, and after
the battles of AverysbOro and Bentonsville,
we once more came out of the wilderness
to meet your friends at Goldsboro. Even
then we paused only long enough to reload
our wagons, and pushed on again to Raleigh
and beyond. until we met the enemy stieing
for peace instead of war, and Offering to
submit to the injured laws of his and our
mountains, rivers, swamps nor hunger nor
cold had not checked US; but when he who
had fought US hard and persistently, offer
ed submission our General thought It
wrong to pursue him further, and negotia-
tions followed which were attended, as you
all know, by his surrender. How far the
operations of the enemy here contrib
uted 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 rightto join in the universal joy that
falls on our land, because the war is over,
and our Government stands vindicated be-
fore the world by the Joint action of the
armies of the United States. Such as re-
main in the military service, your General
need only remind you that success I'M the
past Is due to hard work and discipline, land
that the same work and discipline are
equally important In the future. To such
as 20 home, we will only say that our
favored country is SO grand, SO extensive,
so diversified in climate, so rich In produc-
tions that every man, surely, can find a
home and occupation suited to his taste,
and none should yield to natural in,pdling
sure to result from our past life of excite
ment and adventure. You will be invited
to seek new advantage abroad, but do not
yield to the temptation, for twill lead only
to death and disappointment. dl lo
Your General now bids you all farewell,
and with the full belief that as in war you
have been good soldiers, so in peace you
will make good citizens, and If unfortunate
ly new war should arise in our country,
Sherman's army will be the first to bucklei
on the old armor and line forth to defend
and maintain the Government of our in-o
heritance and choice. oih 1ls5. la -9ons2
BY order of Maj. Gen. w. T. Sherman.
,91ISigned] ri'E M.DAYToN, A. A. G. aq
JUDGE ID. X. CARTIER is reported anxious
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